GBG is a 32 bit & 64 bit Windows command line program that creates files of a specified size, filled with pseudo-random Garbage bytes.
Files between 0 and 2GiB in size can be generated, although for file sizes greater than 500,000,000 bytes the user must confirm the operation.
Files up to 10MiB in size are generated with random bytes. Files larger than 10MiB have the first 10MiB bytes generated randomly, but then that same 10MiB pattern is repeated as many times as necessary. If the requested file size is zero then an empty file is created.
Example of use:
gbg sample2MiB.dat 2,097,152
Creates a file named sample2MiB.dat
that is 2Mib (= 2,097,152 bytes) in size.
For more information about on how to use the program see the Read Me Markdown file on GitHub.
GBG is copyright © 2023 by Peter Johnson. The program and its source code are released under the terms of the MIT License.
Download
This program is hosted on GitHub in the delphidabbler/gbg
repository. The program can be downloaded from the repository's Releases tab.
Each release gives the option of downloading either the programs's executable code or the source code. Your options are:
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Choose
gbg-exe64-0.1.0.zip
to download a zip file containing the 64 bit version of the program or gbg-exe32-0.1.0.zip
for the 32 bit version. There is no installer. Just extract the desired program's .exe
from the .zip
file and copy it to a folder on your system. It can be run from there.
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Choose
Source code.zip
to download the source code in .zip
format.
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Choose
Source code.tar.gz
to download the source code as a g-zipped tarball.
Get release v0.1.0 from GitHub
Documentation
The following documentation is available. All of it opens on GitHub.
Bugs & Feature Requests
You can report bugs or suggest new features using the GBG issue tracker on GitHub.
Please review existing bug reports and feature requests before creating a new issue. If an issue already exists you may be able to help by adding a further comment.
You will need a GitHub account if you want to create or edit an issue.