October 10

Linux: Create a small file of random data

There a several ways to create a file with random data.
Here are two options:

head -c 100k /dev/urandom > test.txt

dd if=/dev/urandom of=test2.txt bs=1k count=100

The key is creating the data from /dev/urandom or /dev/random

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Posted October 10, 2017 by Timothy Conrad in category "Linux

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