[ale] making empty files
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Tue Mar 18 18:46:39 EST 2003
Jim wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 March 2003 04:38 pm, Jason Vinson wrote:
>
>>i am attempting to make files of various sizes to do transfer tests on
>>my network, and i know there is a command to make an empty file of a
>>specific size. Can anyone give me a hint?
Hmmmm, make an empty fiel of a specific size? If it's empty, size
should be zero. Are you trying to create a file containing nulls?
touch foo
will create an empty file foo if it doesn't already exist.
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>
> I think "touch" will do that. See the man page.
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