fileinator

A simple utility to generate files with a specified size and random content.

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Version: 2.0.1

Version published: 5 years ago

Weekly downloads: 5

Maintainers: 1

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Created: 10 years ago

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fileinator

Behold my latest inator! Generate files full of random bytes. Good for tests.

inator

Installation

npm install -g fileinator

Usage

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.

License

MIT License

Questions?

Feel free to submit an issue on the repository, or find me at @JustinBeckwith

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Package last updated on 10 Jan 2021

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