On du info page:
     with this command
          : | dd bs=1 seek=`echo '2^31'|bc` of=big
     has an apparent size of 2 gigabytes, yet on most modern systems,
You gotta say what's up with the : | jazz. Why not using if=/dev/null
or something.  People are curious.


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