From: Mark Dodwell <seo@...>
Date: 2008-05-16T07:09:47+09:00
Subject: Create an empty file of certain size

Hi,

I need to create an empty (or at least garbage) file of a certain size.
I'm doing it the way below, but it is rather slow -- any ideas on a
quicker way?

  File.open("tmp.txt", 'w') { |f| 10.megabytes.times { f.write "a" } }

Thanks!

~ Mark
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