#!/usr/bin/perl sub usage { print STDERR "Usage: $0 \n"; exit 1; } usage if(@ARGV != 2); $buf1k = "\0"x1024; $buf1m = "$buf1k"x1024; $kb = $ARGV[0] * 1; &usage if($kb == 0); if($ARGV[1] eq '-') { open(FILE, "|cat") or die; } else { open(FILE, ">$ARGV[1]") or die; } for($i = 0; $i+1024 <= $kb; $i+=1024) { print FILE $buf1m or die; } if($i < $kb) { print FILE "$buf1k"x($kb-$i) or die; } close FILE;