test the speed of various hashing programs (and dd sources of random data)

hash_tests.sh

tests=3
kilobytes=102400
commands=(md5 shasum)
count=0
test_num=0
time_file=/tmp/time.out
file_base=/tmp/rand

while [[ test_num -lt tests ]]; do
    ((test_num++))
    for cmd in "${commands[@]}"; do
        ((count++))
        file=$file_base$count
        touch $file
        # slowest
        #/usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/random of=$file bs=1024 count=$kilobytes >/dev/null 2>$time_file
        # slow
        #/usr/bin/time dd if=/dev/urandom of=$file bs=1024 count=$kilobytes >/dev/null 2>$time_file                                                                                                        
        # less slow
        /usr/bin/time sudo dd if=/dev/disk0 skip=$(($RANDOM*4096)) of=$file bs=1024 count=$kilobytes >/dev/null 2>$time_file
        echo "dd took $(tail -n1 $time_file | awk '{print $1}') seconds"
        echo -n "$(printf "%7s" $cmd)ing $file: "
        /usr/bin/time $cmd $file >/dev/null
        rm $file
    done
done