Usually, data that mimics real-world data is always the best, but sometimes we need an assortment of files of various content and size for validation testing without delay. Imagine that you have a web server and it is running some sort of application that accepts files for storage. However, the files have a size limit being enforced. Wouldn't it be great to just whip up a batch of files in an instant?
To do this, we can use some few file system features such as /dev/random and a useful program called dd. The dd command is a utility that can be used to convert and copy files (including devices due to Linux's concept of everything is a file, more or less). It can be used in a later recipe ...
