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Created August 16, 2012 10:01
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Create a file of certain size filed with random content or zeros
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#how to create a file of certain size and random content
dd if=/dev/urandom of=output.dat bs=1024 count=1024
#the same for zero’ish content
dd if=/dev/zero of=output.dat bs=1024 count=1024
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