Create a number of perforce text files and add them each as a changelist

create-revision.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -Eeu
set -x

# You need to use a session ticket (https://about.sourcegraph.com/handbook/support/p4-enablement#generate-a-session-ticket)
# in order to avoid password prompts

# TO edit this file, you must run `p4 edit create-revision.sh` first

suffix="baz"
client="dax3"
file_size="5000000" # 1,000,000 ~ 1MB
big_file_size_bytes="1000000000" # 1 GB

start=$(date +%s)

for num in {1..1000}; do
    echo "writing file ${num}"
    base64 /dev/urandom | head -c ${file_size} > ./test/"${num}_${suffix}".txt
    if [ $(( num % 10  )) -eq 0 ]; then
        base64 /dev/urandom | head -c ${big_file_size_bytes} > ./test/"${num}_big_${suffix}".txt
    fi
    
    p4 -c ${client} add test/"${num}_${suffix}".txt
    p4 -c ${client} submit -d "test-$num"
done

end=$(date +%s)
runtime=$((end-start))
echo "Finished in ${runtime}"