On May 14, 2009, at 13:38:42, Salvatore Insalaco wrote:
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Eric Kow <[email protected]> wrote:It'd be nice if we could make just one last push to get rid of these. Ideas?I tried to substitute the 1mb file generation with something like that:while true; do echo -n "a"; done | head -c 1048000 but it is really really slow :).
# Create a file with 1 byte
echo -n a > file
# Quadruple the file size 10 times
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
cat file file file file > file2
mv file2 file
done
# The Unix classic for creating a file with all zeros
dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1k count=1024
-erik
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