SUMMARY: what's the command for creating a file of a particular size

From: alpha-osf-manager email acct <osf_at_python.corning.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 12:50:38 -0400 (EDT)

the to the 13 respondents
the command i was after was mkfile
however mkfile is a solaris utility & doesn't exist on dunix
here are some other creative answers i received:

yes | head -c bytes >filename

dd if=/dev/zero of=theNameOfTheFile bs=189465 count=1

perl -e 'print "0" x 1024' > 1k

head -c # /dev/zero > myfile

fseek()
        

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