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
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