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Create Dummy File In Linux

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  1. $ dd if=/dev/zero    of=filename bs=1k count=5 # 5KB of zero content
  2. $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=filename bs=1M count=7 # 7MB of random content
  3. $ touch filename #  create 0B file (if file exists, updates mtime)

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