#!/usr/bin/env perl for (@ARGV) { open _, '>' . $_ . 'bytes.dat' or die; truncate _, int $_; close _; } __END__ #!/usr/bin/env python import sys if __name__ == '__main__': for i in sys.argv[1:]: o = open(i + 'bytes.dat', 'w') o.truncate(int(i)) o.close() sys.exit()