#!/bin/bash ######## User settings ############ MAXDIRS=15 MAXDEPTH=7 MAXFILES=100000 MAXSIZE=8000000000 ######## End of user settings ############ # How deep in the file system are we now? TOP=`pwd|tr -cd '/'|wc -c` populate() { cd $1 curdir=$PWD files=$(($RANDOM*$MAXFILES/32767)) for n in `seq $files` do f=`mktemp XXXXXX` size=$(($RANDOM*$MAXSIZE/32767)) head -c $size /dev/urandom > $f done depth=`pwd|tr -cd '/'|wc -c` if [ $(($depth-$TOP)) -ge $MAXDEPTH ] then return fi unset dirlist dirs=$(($RANDOM*$MAXDIRS/32767)) for n in `seq $dirs` do d=`mktemp -d XXXXXX` dirlist="$dirlist${dirlist:+ }$PWD/$d" done for dir in $dirlist do populate "$dir" done } populate $PWD