On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote:

JO>Usually programs will manage their own sparse files; it's something hard
JO>to do at the shell.

When I need a file for TCP performance tests I usually do

dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1k count=1 seek=99999

harti
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