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creating a bogus / empty file in Linux

A friend emailed me tonight asking how he could create a file on his Linux system of a specific size, but with no real data in it… He could have googled… but. Here’s a run down: dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1024 count=1048576 dd – the command if – input file (zero in this case) of – [...]