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Could anybody help me to create an empty file of a specific size limit?..pls let me know what command has to be used for the same. u123

Name: nails
Date: September 29, 2004 at 07:32:16 Pacific

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Hi: There's a little known device called /dev/zero which can quickly create a file of known size. This command: dd if=/dev/zero of=myfile bs=1024 count=10 creates file "myfile" filled with zeros with a block size of 1000 muliplied 10 tens or 10K. Regards, Nails

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