05 September 2015

Linux Bash Generate Random Files

In this Post I will discuss how to create random files using Linux bash script and how to remove files. For Example If you need to remove logs created for project you can write bashscripts to remove log files.First script create log files and second script remove the log files.

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#!/bin/bash

DIRECTORY_NAME="/home/sajithv/scripts"

cd $DIRECTORY_NAME

while :

do

CURRENT_TIME=`date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S`

echo "Create Files at $CURRENT_TIME."

 touch "SampleFile$CURRENT_TIME.txt"

 sleep 5

done

Happy Coding...