randomtext

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Randomtext

Command line random text generator

Usage

$ randomtext -h
Usage of randomtext:
  -profile string
    	Type of profile - cpu,mem
  -size string
    	Size of generated random text in KB, MB, GB, TB (default "1MB")
  -type string
    	Type of text to be generated - chars, words, zeros (default "chars")

Examples

• Generate 1 KB random characters
  • randomtext --size=1KB | pv > output.txt
• Generate 100MB random words
  • randomtext --size=100MB --type=words | pv > output.txt
• Generate 1GB of zeros
  • randomtext --size=1GB --type=zeros | pv > output.txt

Source of words. The above commands use pv for pipeline visualization only.

Use cases

• Testing the capacity of code editors/IDEs
• Generate logs to generate load for log forwarders like fluent bit

Installation

Mac OSX

$ brew install kishaningithub/tap/randomtext

Other platforms

Prebuilt binaries for various platforms are available in the releases page. Download it, Extract it and add the binary in your $PATH

Development

To build

make build

Documentation

Index

• Variables
• func CharGenerator() func() string
• func Generate(sizeInBytes int, generate func() string, writer io.Writer)
• func WordGenerator() func() string
• func ZeroGenerator() func() string

Variables

var Characters string

var Words string

Functions

func CharGenerator

func CharGenerator() func() string

CharGenerator returns a function that generates random chars

func Generate

func Generate(sizeInBytes int, generate func() string, writer io.Writer)

Generate text of given type for a given size and writes it to the given writer

func WordGenerator

func WordGenerator() func() string

WordGenerator returns random words

func ZeroGenerator

func ZeroGenerator() func() string

ZeroGenerator returns a function that generates zeros