On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 07:39:57PM +1100, Ken Yap wrote:
| >As an extension to the shell programming talk at last night's meeting:
| >
| >user@somebox$ for i in `seq -w 1 2147483648`; do touch file$i; done
| >
| >should quickly fill up your inodes :)
|
| Bet you haven't actually tried it because you'll probably hit the limit
| on the number of arguments first.
Hmm. Maybe, but only because you're out of RAM; no exec() limit is involved
because the args are being given to the for loop, a shell internal.
| Better use expr in a loop to increment
| a variable. Or better still, write it in C or Perl, shell will take ages.
Rubbish. Using "touch" will take ages (fork/exec cost), but
seq -w 1 2147483648 \
| while read seq
do >"$seq"
done
will scream.
The shell is your friend, learn to use it efficiently.
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