file of large size
Hi, Can anyone suggest me a shell script or a command to create a large file in BSD(aroung 50 MB).Any junk data in it is also fine. Thanks in advance, shubha __ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: file of large size
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:25:17AM +0100, shubha mr wrote: Hi, Can anyone suggest me a shell script or a command to create a large file in BSD(aroung 50 MB).Any junk data in it is also fine. cat /dev/urandom | head -c byte count large_file large_file will be a byte count file of garbage data. Thanks in advance, shubha mike -- ___ HER NAME, MY YOUNG FRIEND, IS APPARENTLY HEADCHEESE. - Pokey the Penguin from POKEY THE PENGUIN AND HEADCHEESE To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: file of large size
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:25:17AM +0100, shubha mr wrote: Hi, Can anyone suggest me a shell script or a command to create a large file in BSD(aroung 50 MB).Any junk data in it is also fine. truncate -s 50M /path/to/file This creates a sparse file (i.e. it doesn't take up 50M of disk space). If you actually need space to be allocated, use dd(1). Kris msg03613/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: file of large size
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] shubha mr wrote: Hi, Can anyone suggest me a shell script or a command to create a large file in BSD(aroung 50 MB).Any junk data in it is also fine. Thanks in advance, shubha mkfile junk 50M KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
