Added gendata script

This script will generate random data to be used for testing the
palindrome finder program.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gendata.sh b/gendata.sh
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+++ b/gendata.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+if [[ -z ${1} ]]; then
+  echo "Please provide a character count to generate";
+  return 1
+fi
+
+# Create data dir if doesn't exist
+datadir='./data'
+if [[ ! -d ${datadir} ]]; then
+  mkdir ${datadir}
+fi
+
+
+charcount=${1}
+head -c ${charcount} /dev/urandom | base64 | tr -cd 'a-zA-Z0-9' | head -c ${charcount} > ${datadir}/${charcount}.txt