#! /usr/bin/perl # Pad a file with zero bytes to make its length # an even multiple of some value. # $Revision: 1.1 $ use strict qw(refs vars); use FileHandle; if ( scalar(@ARGV) != 2 ) { print STDERR "usage: pad \n"; exit 1; } my $filename = shift @ARGV; my $multiple = shift @ARGV; my $size = (-s $filename); die "Couldn't get size of $filename: $!" if ( !defined $size ); my $num_pad = ($multiple - ($size % $multiple)) % $multiple; my $buf = chr(0) x $num_pad; my $fh = new FileHandle(">>$filename"); die "Couldn't open $filename: $!" if ( !defined $fh ); binmode $fh; syswrite $fh, $buf, $num_pad, 0; $fh->close();