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span class="application">genrandom</
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code class="command">genrandom</
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2N/A generates a file or a set of files containing a specified quantity
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2N/A In place of generating one file, generates <
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2N/A The size of the file, in kilobytes, to generate.
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2N/A The file name into which random data should be written.
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