$ perl -le' my @c = 1 .. 10_000_000; print @c . " @c[0..19]"; my @e = ( 0 ) x ( @c / 2 ); print @e . " @e[0..19]"; ' 10000000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 5000000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0