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This should work in most shells (not csh):

i=1
while [ $i -lt 100 ]
do
dd if=/dev/zero of=50gb_$i.img bs=5gb count=10
let i=i+1
done

Edit: Nice solution Corona688, and I agree...

I don't think you want to use a 5 gigabyte block size! That may require dd to allocate 5 gigabytes of memory :eek:

I'd also worry about the system not being able to delete the file once the disk...