[lug] how to create big text file

[Andrew Diederich]

Wunderbar (sp).  

-Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Calvin Dodge [mailto:caldodge at fpcc.net]
> Andrew Diederich wrote:
> > 
> > I need to make a 15 meg text file.  Is there a way I can 
> use domething like
> > /dev/zero to do this?  If so, how?
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=zeroes bs=100000 count=150
> 
> This took less than a second on a dual Celeron 433.
> 
> Calvin
> 
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