How to use trim command ?

Rick Macklem rmacklem at uoguelph.ca
Sat Dec 1 22:14:29 UTC 2018


Warner Losh wrote:
>Rebecca Cran 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.

What about something with "ssd" in it, like "ssdbulkerase" or "ssderaseall"?

rick



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