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Created June 4, 2012 15:04
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Create a file of given size with random data
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gistfile1.sh
# `head -c bytes`
# e.g. for a 1kb file:
cat /dev/random | head -c 1024 > data.bin
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catwell commented Jun 5, 2012

More traditional (and no pipes):

dd if=/dev/urandom of=data.bin bs=1024 count=1

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deltheil commented Jun 5, 2012

Cheers :)

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