On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 06:39 PM, Damir Horvat wrote:
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:22:51 +0800 "Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com> wrote:Hi, Just wanted to know... how do I make a file with all 1s or 0s or something with a certain size (eg. 100Mb)? I was thinking 'dd something' but there is probably a better way?why not dd? dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/yourfile bs=1m count=100
Also, piping through tr could be handy. dd if=/dev/zero bs=1m count=100 |tr "\0" "1" > /tmp/yourfile ============================== David Stanaway Personal: david@stanaway.net Work: david@netventures.com.au