Random file of set length

David A. Sinck plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:46:00 -0700 

\_ SMTP quoth Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. on 9/11/2002 15:35 as having spake thusly:
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\_ I want to create a random file of 5MB.  How do I do that?

dd bs=5242880 count=1 if=/dev/random of=/tmp/my5M

or something like that?

YMMV.

David