[ale] making empty files

[Geoffrey]

Jim wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 March 2003 04:38 pm, Jason Vinson wrote:
> 
>>i am attempting to make files of various sizes to do transfer tests on
>>my network, and i know there is a command to make an empty file of a
>>specific size.  Can anyone give me a hint?

Hmmmm, make an empty fiel of a specific size?  If it's empty, size 
should be zero.  Are you trying to create a file containing nulls?

touch foo

will create an empty file foo if it doesn't already exist.

> 
> 
> I think "touch" will do that. See the man page.
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