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Thoughts, tips and ideas on next-gen technology by: Moshe Brevda

2009/06/29

Create an empty file of a specific size

Recently, I wanted to run a quick test to see the download speed of a web host. All I wanted was to download a file, any file really, but I wanted something 1gb in size. Moving to the www root, here is what I did:

dd if=/dev/zero of=file_to-create bs=1k count=1000000

This instantly gave me a 1gb file which I was then able to download!