Program for generating files?

Question

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I am testing a web service that sends out files, because of this I need to find a way to automatically create files. Does anyone know of a free file generation tool?

Answer 1

Try $ /dev/random > myfile1 with different time lengths and namings

Answer 2

You can use fsutil to do so

The Syntax is:

fsutil file createnew C:\testfile.txt 1000

Answer 3

You can test your webservice by hard with:

JMeter

It is more automated than doing it by hand and it has a lot of nice monitoring features.