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Linux generate a number of files of random sizes in a range

May 21st, 2014
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  1. #!/bin/bash
  2. # generate a number of files with random sizes in a range
  3.  
  4. min=1      # min size (MB)
  5. max=10     # max size (MB)
  6. nofiles=20 # number of files
  7.  
  8. for i in `eval echo {1..$nofiles}`
  9. do
  10.     dd bs=1M count=$(($RANDOM%max + $min)) if=/dev/urandom of=./files/file$i
  11. done
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