[darcs-users] can we get rid of perl requirement in our test suite?

[Erik Schnetter]

On May 14, 2009, at 13:38:42, Salvatore Insalaco wrote:

> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
>> It'd be nice if we could make just one last push to get rid of these.
>> Ideas?
>
> I tried to substitute the 1mb file generation with something like  
> that:
>
> while true; do echo -n "a"; done | head -c 1048000
>
> but it is really really slow :).


# Create a file with 1 byte
echo -n a > file
# Quadruple the file size 10 times
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
     cat file file file file > file2
     mv file2 file
done

# The Unix classic for creating a file with all zeros
dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1k count=1024

-erik

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