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.\" Copyright 2011 Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
.\" 
.\" This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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.TH MKSPARSE 1
.SH NAME
mksparse \- add a hole to the end of a file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mksparse
.RB [ \-\-size =\fISIZE\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mksparse
appends a "whole" to the end of an existing file.
It appends one real NUL byte at the end of the whole.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-\-size "=\fISIZE"
Size of the whole to append.
The actual size is one byte less.