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Hi,

i want to truncate the log file which is already in use ( log is getting appended) . After that i want to make sure log is still getting appeneded after performing truncate. I have been using below command for the same but don't see it is happening.

truncate -s 0 rosout.log

i belive it should truncate the log file contents and after that append the new one.
even it will be helpfull if i can specify how many contents i would be able to truncate.

truncate -s 1M rosout.log

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As I have said to others, use logrotate. See the man page for logrotate and logrotate.conf usage. That will let you do exactly what you want.

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Also depending on how much you're changing the size, it would be possible to have a smaller file size and still use the same amount on the hard drive, due to the way your OS has structured the file system.

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