How to use trim command ?

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 12:50 AM Rebecca Cran via freebsd-hackers <
freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Friday, 30 November 2018 17:36:01 MST Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> > 01.12.2018 6:56, Ian Lepore wrote:
>
> > newfs destroys data too, cat > /dev/da0 does this too,
> > add the name "dd" itself does not imply data destruction.
>
> > Can you invent better name?
>
> 'discard'?
>

That's a good name. trim has the unfortunate collision with the perl 'trim'
function and similar things that I didn't think of when I recommended it.
It's also nicely technology agnostic.

Warner