I have a large file and need to delete last 512 bytes. I don’t want to duplicate file.
Thanks.
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I have a large file and need to delete last 512 bytes. I don’t want to duplicate file.
Thanks.
You should use
ftruncate(handle, file_size - 512)(get the file size withfilesizeorfstatfunction)