I want to create a file of a specific size containing only printable strings in bash.
My first thought was to use /dev/urandom
:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/file bs=1M count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB, 100 MiB) copied, 10,3641 s, 10,1 MB/s
file /tmp/file && du -h /tmp/file
/tmp/file: data
101M /tmp/file
This leaves me with a file, of my desired size, but not only containing printable strings.
Now, I can use strings
to create a file only containing printable strings.
cat /tmp/file | strings > /tmp/file.txt
file /tmp/file.txt && du -h /tmp/file.txt
/tmp/file.txt: ASCII text
7,0M /tmp/file.txt
This leaves me with a file containing only printable strings, but with the wrong file size.
TL;DR
How can I create a file of a specific size, containing only printable strings, in bash?
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