File remove command?

[Albert Langer]

In article <3202 at wyse.wyse.com> bob at wyse.UUCP (Bob McGowan) quotes and writes:

>>How does one fill a file with zeroes or whatever in as few keystrokes
>>as possible? ed?
>
>I do not know about the "in as few keystrokes as possible", but the
>following script will overwrite the file space.
>[...]  THERE IS A MAJOR PROBLEM:  The amount of system RAM available
>to the user will affect how big a file can be handled by this procedure.

>I hope this is of interest to someone out there.  ;-)

Thanks Bob, I will keep the script handy.

Anyone got any other ideas, that might overcome the RAM limitation and be
few enough keystrokes to use casually without a script, or at least 
define as an alias? I still think ed might be useful.

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