Random file of set length

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 15:35, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote:
> I want to create a random file of 5MB. How do I do that?
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> Gilbert
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/dev/random is there for just this purpose. A simple

    [foo@bar]$ dd if=/dev/random of=filename bs=1M count=5

Should do the trick.

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