Random file of set length

[Kevin Buettner]

On Sep 11,  3:40pm, Matt Alexander wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. wrote:
> 
> > I want to create a random file of 5MB.  How do I do that?
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1024k count=5
        ^^^^^^^^^

That won't be random...

(Try /dev/random or /dev/urandom instead.)

Kevin