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What’s the fastest way to generate a 1 GB text file containing random digits?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

I tried a bash script, but it took too long to create a simple 1 MB file. I think the answer lies in using /dev/random or /dev/urandom, but other posts here only show how to add all kinds of data to a file using these things, but I want to add only numbers.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags files, random Leave a comment

How can I populate a file with random data?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

How can I create a new file and fill it with 1 Gigabyte worth of random data? I need this to test some software.

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Why can’t tr read from /dev/urandom on OSX?

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

A colleague suggested creating a random key via the following command:

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    remove libwacom2 worked for me as well

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