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Re:A little story about the `yes` Unix command by remix2000 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:11AM (#32177964)
Touche, and there is already a program for the exact purpose of generating large amounts of data: jot(1)

https://manpage.me/?q=jot

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Re:A little story about the `yes` Unix command by xphx on Thursday July 21, 2022 @09:20AM (#32179001)
Or if homogeneous data is fine, just cat or dd from a source like /dev/zero.
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Re:A little story about the `yes` Unix command by drewzero1 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @12:31PM (#32181390)
I think I've seen /dev/random used for generating large amounts of garbage data as well. (Though usually my problem is too much garbage data, not too little.)
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Re:A little story about the `yes` Unix command by dncornholio on Thursday July 21, 2022 @08:19AM (#32178443)
And here is the problem. Now we have 2 programs that do essentially the same thing.
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