Girish Venkatachalam <girishvenkatacha...@...> writes: > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Tha.Suresh <jemenisur...@...> wrote: > > Create a file of a given size in linux > > > > $ truncate -s 10M file > > [clip] > > I can only see truncate(2) in section 2 of the man page in OpenBSD. > > Too bad.
dd can also be used to achieve a similar effect. $ dd if=/dev/null of=file seek=10M bs=1 Regards, Vijay -- P: http://www.bravegnu.org/ C: http://www.zilogic.com/ _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
