I assume this means you want bytes X through Y of this file? I assume this means you want bytes _X_ through _Y_ of this file? One way is to use tail (as you mentioned) to truncate the first _X_ bytes ...

This week, I will show how to truncate files using the truncate() and ftruncate() syscalls. The file system automatically expands a file’s size as more data is appended to it; however, it has no way ...

I have a bunch of files that I would like to truncate the file names on. The names are in this format: My File_050213.mov What I want to do is rename all the files so that only the text AFTER the ...