backer-and / FFiller

Creates files of arbitrary size or rewrites with the same source size.

FFiller

Creates and rewrites files of arbitrary size.

Installation

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/backer-and/FFiller/master/install.sh | bash

Or just run it from where it is with ./ffiller.sh

Same applies for uninstall.sh

Usage

ffiller [-f <file>] -s <size> [-t zero/random] -v -y [<file> <file2> ...]

The file size argument is mandatory.

--file: [-f <file>]         With -f option, all filenames at the end will be ignored.
                            Default name: 'out'.


--size: -s <size>           The file size argument is mandatory and can be expressed in K, M or G.

                            ffiller -s 10M


--type: [-t zero/random]    The file can be filled with '/dev/zero' or '/dev/urandom'.
                            Default: empty file.

                            ffiller -f file -s 10M -t random


--verbose: -v               Display transfer stats.

--yall: -y                  Skips all rewriting confirmations.

--version                   Display version.

Examples

ffiller -f file -s 10K -t zero

creates or fills up the file from /dev/zero, skipping any other file at the end

ffiller -s 10M -t random file1 file2 file3

creates or fills up last tree files from /dev/urandom

Output

The output produced is a file re/filled based on the option type.