Re^2: how to give size to a file at the time of creation

If your filesystem supports sparse files, you don't need to write it all, one byte will do:

$ rm -f xx ; perl -wE'open$a,">","xx";seek$a,1048575,0;print$a "x"' ; 
+ls -l xx
-rw-rw-rw- 1 merijn users 1048576 May  3 09:59 xx
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Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

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Re^3: how to give size to a file at the time of creation by Random_Walk (Prior) on May 03, 2013 at 08:59 UTC
I tried `seek` first, but I am on a work XP box and it just gave me a small file. Like you said if your OS supports... Cheers, R. Pereant, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt!	[reply] [d/l] [select]