Little bash script which generates some random files (max file size ~3 MB).

randomfiles

#!/bin/bash

#
# randomfiles
#
# Little bash script which generates some random files (max file size ~3 MB).
#
# Copyright(c) 2014 André König <[email protected]>
# MIT Licensed
#

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
    echo -e "Please define how many files you want to generate.\n";
    echo -e "    $ randomfiles 10\n";
fi

len=$1;
i=1;

while [[ $i -le $len ]]; do
    echo -e "Generating $i/$len\n";
    dd bs=1024 count=$(($RANDOM / 10)) skip=$RANDOM if=/dev/urandom of=randomfile.$i;
    echo -e "done!\n"

    let "i += 1";
done