I need to generate about 1 GB of random data

[beer]

I need to generate about 1 GB of random data. I'm doing file transfer experiments.

Yes, I can write a tool in about 10 minutes that does this, but if there's a freeware app out there that already does it, it'd make me really happy...

Thanks

 

[Nothinman]

On Linux: dd if=/dev/urandom of=./somefile bs=1024K count=1024

 

[Crusty]

It's easy to do in Linux..

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/path/to/file

Not so sure how easy it is in Windows.

 

[Markbnj]

Depends on what format you want it in. Here is a tool that works for SQL databases. If you just want 1 gigabyte of random 8-bit, or 16-bit, or 32-bit values then probably best just to whip out a tool to generate it and write it out.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

ping IP -t -l 65500

Run as many instances as necessary