Bash Cookbook

Getting ready

To get ready for this recipe, install the dd command as follows and make a new directory called qa-data/:

$ sudo apt-get install dd bsdmainutils$ mkdir qa-data

This recipe uses the dmesg command, which is used to return system information such as interface status or the system boot process. It is nearly always present on a system and therefore a good substitute to reasonable system level "lorem ipsum". If you wish to use another type of random text, or a dictionary of words, dmesg can easily be replaced! Another two commands used are seq and hexdump. The seq command can generate an array of n numbers from a starting point using a specified increment, and hexdump produces a human readable representation of a binary (or executable) ...