Create many files with random content
Source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199863/create-many-files-with-random-content
For example,
Name size file1.01 2K file2.02 3K file3.03 5K etc.
Strategy – 1
#! /bin/bash for n in {1..1000}; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=file$( printf %03d "$n" ).bin bs=1 count=$(( RANDOM + 1024 )) done
Strategy – 2
seq -w 1 10 | xargs -n1 -I% sh -c 'dd if=/dev/urandom of=file.% bs=$(shuf -i1-10 -n1) count=1024'