# filebucket

**Repository Path**: mirrors_puppetlabs/filebucket

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: filebucket
- **Description**: A small command-line utility for creating files of arbitrary sizes. Useful for data generation when testing.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: BSD-3-Clause
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-18
- **Last Updated**: 2026-07-25

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

FileBucket
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This program will create files of arbitrary size. Just provide it with a seed file
and it will generate a given file in a directory of your choice.

Options:
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    -h  --help      show this help message and exit
    -d  --seed      the seed file from which the target file is created (required)
    -s  --size      the size of the target file in megabytes (required)
    -f  --file      the target file path and name (can only be specified when NOT using the count option)
    -p  --prefix    the prefix to add to the random file name which can include a path (can only be used with the count option)
    -u  --suffix    the suffix to add to the random file name (can only be used with the count option)
    -c  --count     the number of files to write (optional)
    -k  --kilobyte  create files that are 1KB in size (cannot be used in conjunction with the --size or --seed options)