file of large size

2002-10-02 Thread shubha mr
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

Re: file of large size

2002-10-02 Thread mpd
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

Re: file of large size

2002-10-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
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

Re: file of large size

2002-10-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
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