Commands

truncate

Supported By

Syntax

truncate object [at offset]

Object yields an object with an appropriate I/O manager. Offset yields an integer.

Description

The truncate command truncates the specified object, which must be opened already with the open command. In other words, any data after the specified offset is deleted. If no offset is specified, the object will be truncated where the last read or write left off.

Note

If you open a file that already exists and write some data to it, the file may still contain old data that did not get overwritten. The truncate command allows you to remove the contents of a file before writing to it.

See Also

open, read, write, close, file, URL, text, binary