Generate Junk Files

The other day I was testing benchmarks for a delete script. I needed to create files with various file sizes. More specific, 1,000,000 files with 5K per file. A while ago I found this great snippet on StackOverflow to generate a junk random string:

junk =  (("%%0%dX" % (junk_len * 2)) % random.getrandbits(junk_len * 8)).decode("hex")

I’ve wrapped that around to make a utility function and snippet:

import os, random, sys

# This tool takes 3 parameters
#
#   testing   
#
# Example:
#
#   testing dan 100 500

def createLocalDirectory( directoryName ):
  if not os.path.exists( directoryName ):
    os.makedirs( directoryName )

folderName      = sys.argv[1]
how_many_files  = int(sys.argv[2])
junk_len        = int(sys.argv[3])


createLocalDirectory( folderName )

for i in range( 0, how_many_files ):  
  junk =  (("%%0%dX" % (junk_len * 2)) % random.getrandbits(junk_len * 8)).decode("hex")
  path = folderName + "/" + str(i) + ".txt"
  f = open( path, 'w' )
  f.write( junk )
  print f
  f.close()