From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 0:31:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA8737B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:31:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roc-66-24-94-3.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-24-94-3.rochester.rr.com [66.24.94.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05FCB43E4A for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vega@roc-66-24-94-3.rochester.rr.com) Received: by roc-66-24-94-3.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 91391901A22; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:30:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:30:07 -0400 From: mpd To: shubha mr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: file of large size Message-ID: <20021002073007.GA31126@rochester.rr.com> References: <20021002072517.28439.qmail@web14611.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021002072517.28439.qmail@web14611.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > large_file large_file will be a file of garbage data. > > Thanks in advance, > shubha > mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "HER NAME, MY YOUNG FRIEND, IS APPARENTLY HEADCHEESE." - Pokey the Penguin from "POKEY THE PENGUIN AND HEADCHEESE" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message