samuelchristlie / byteblast

ByteBlast is a powerful dummy file creator written in Rust, designed to assist you in various testing scenarios.

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ByteBlast

Easily create dummy files for various purposes

ByteBlast is a versatile dummy file creator written in Rust. It allows you to generate large files filled with random byte patterns, making it useful for various testing scenarios, such as performance benchmarking, stress testing, or simulating realistic file sizes.

Features 💪

• Efficient and Fast: ByteBlast is built using Rust, a high-performance systems programming language, ensuring efficient file generation even for extremely large files.
• Flexible File Generation: ByteBlast provides a simple and intuitive command-line interface that enables you to generate files of any size, with customizable byte patterns.
• Random Byte Generation: Generate files with random byte patterns, useful for testing scenarios where data integrity or randomness is important.

Table of Contents 📝

1. 💻 Installation
2. ▶ Usage
3. 📃 License
4. 🙏 Acknowledgements

💻 Installation

Building

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/samuelchristlie/ByteBlast
cd ByteBlast

Build project using Cargo

cargo build --release

The compiled build should be located in the target folder.

Prebuilt Binary

You can also check if a prebuilt binary is available in the Releases section.

▶ Usage

To run ByteBlast, simply type the following command

byteblast

📃 License

This project is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 License - see the LICENSE file for more details.

🙏 Acknowledgements

Thanks to Patrick Gillespie for creating the ASCII text art tool used in this project https://patorjk.com/software/taag/

byteblast's Issues

Filesize limited by memory and vector size

The program simply exits when creating a very large file. Possible solution is to generate the file in chunks.