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Homework and Emergencies Emergency UNIX and Linux Support Script to fill the file system mount with empty files to desired size Post 302731247 by chandu123 on Wednesday 14th of November 2012 02:59:50 PM
Old 11-14-2012
Hello,

I tried to run the below code and getting the following error. could you please help.

dd: bad arg -5211234
Usage: dd [if=InputFile] [of=OutputFile] [cbs=Number] [fskip=Number]
[skip=Number] [seek=Number] [count=Number] [bs=Number] [span=yes|no]
[ibs=Number] [obs=Number] [files=Number] [conv=Parameter[, ...]]


Here is the code that i am using.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
threshold=20
FStoFill=/tmp
set -- $(df -k $FStoFill | tail -1)
dd if=/dev/zero of=$FStoFill/zerofile.$$ bs=1 count=$((($threshold*$2/100)-$3))

 

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PPI::Token::Number::Version(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    PPI::Token::Number::Version(3)

NAME

       PPI::Token::Number::Version - Token class for a byte-packed number

SYNOPSIS

	 $n = 1.1.0;
	 $n = 127.0.0.1;
	 $n = 10_000.10_000.10_000;
	 $n = v1.2.3.4

INHERITANCE

	 PPI::Token::Number::Version
	 isa PPI::Token::Number
	     isa PPI::Token
		 isa PPI::Element

DESCRIPTION

       The "PPI::Token::Number::Version" class is used for tokens that have multiple decimal points.  In truth, these aren't treated like numbers
       at all by Perl, but they look like numbers to a parser.

METHODS

   base
       Returns the base for the number: 256.

   literal
       Return the numeric value of this token.

BUGS

       - Does not handle leading minus sign correctly. Should translate to a DashedWord.  See <http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=574573>

	 -95.0.1.0  --> "-_00cA00"
	 -96.0.1.0  --> Argument "`^A" isn't numeric in negation (-)

SUPPORT

       See the support section in the main module.

AUTHOR

       Chris Dolan <cdolan@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2006 Chris Dolan.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

perl v5.16.3							    2011-02-26					    PPI::Token::Number::Version(3)
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