#!/bin/bash echo "Creating dummy file of 50MB in size (625000 entries of 80chars)" echo "Note: this takes about an hour and a half" entries_per_iteration=1000 for i in `seq 1 625` do echo "Iteration $i of 625 ( $entries_per_iteration each )" for j in `seq 1 $entries_per_iteration` do echo "`date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'` `date +%s`abcdefhijklmno`date +%s | md5sum`" >> ./dummy_history_file done done