fileinator
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Behold my latest inator! Generate files full of random bytes. Good for tests.
npm install -g fileinator
You can use the fileinator as a command line tool or as a library. To use as a command line tool:
fileinator make 10gb ./bigfile
To use as a library, first install locally:
npm install --save fileinator
and then enjoy...
const fileinator = require('../lib/fileinator');
const sizeParser = require('filesize-parser');
const size = sizeParser("20mb");
const path = "./data.dat";
fileinator.writeFile(size, path)
.on('progress', (data) => {
console.log(`${data.bytesWritten} of ${size} written`);
}).on('done', () => {
console.log(`Complete: ${path}`);
});
See more in the examples.
Feel free to submit an issue on the repository, or find me at @JustinBeckwith
FAQs
A simple utility to generate files with a specified size and random content.
The npm package fileinator receives a total of 4 weekly downloads. As such, fileinator popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that fileinator demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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