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Touche, and there is already a program for the exact purpose of generating large amounts of data: jot(1) https://manpage.me/?q=jot https://manpage.me/?q=jot
by remix2000 4y ago
Touche, and there is already a program for the exact purpose of generating large amounts of data: jot(1)
https://manpage.me/?q=jot https://manpage.me/?q=jot
- dncornholio 4y agoAnd here is the problem. Now we have 2 programs that do essentially the same thing.
- xphx 4y agoOr if homogeneous data is fine, just cat or dd from a source like /dev/zero.
- drewzero1 4y agoI think I've seen /dev/random used for generating large amounts of garbage data as well. (Though usually my problem is too much garbage data, not too little.)