On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 06:39 PM, Damir Horvat wrote:

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:22:51 +0800
"Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi,

Just wanted to know... how do I make a file with all 1s or 0s or
something with a certain size (eg. 100Mb)?

I was thinking 'dd something' but there is probably a better way?

why not dd?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/yourfile bs=1m count=100



Also, piping through tr could be handy.

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=100 |tr "\0" "1" > /tmp/yourfile

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