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Old 06-24-2009
Question Creating large number of files of specific size
Hi

I am new to shell scripting.I want to create a batch file which creates a desired number of files with a specific size say 1MB each to consume space.How can i go about it using for loop /any other loop condition using shell script?

Thanks
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Old 06-24-2009
What have you tried so far?
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Old 06-24-2009
Not sure what is the purpose of this but below code will work for u
Code:
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
do
    dd if=/dev/zero of=file$ bs=1M count=1
done

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 02-26-2010 at 02:15 PM.. Reason: added code tags
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Old 06-24-2009
The purpose is that i want to use up my disk space and create lakhs of files to simulate one customer issue .Issue has huge number of files which are accessed and application hangs somewhere performing one operation.
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