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In working on a logfile for an application, I needed to limit the size of the logfile to 1000 bytes. Since it is not possible to delete lines from a file in C++, I used the following steps: Rename the logfile to a temporary name. Read the temporary file. Write …

Hi every one, I am currently working on a server program which executes a series of system commands on receiving a messgae from the client(in C). what the server essentially does is he cd's into a particular directory and executes a shell script that calls make utility and does some …

Hi, I was honing my linux programming skill when this nuisance started bugging me. I wanted to create an empty file creator program. While creating a large file it must print # for progress bar. But the output shows it happening reverse way. ie. first it copies file and shows …