DADUM manpage

DADUM(1) General Commands Manual

NAME

dadum — Tool for dumping mass data (“[da]ta-[dum]per”) by pattern to files or streams.

SYNOPSIS

dadum -s <size> [ { --rnd-bytes | --rnd-text [ --rnd-text-mode <rndTextMode> ] | -b <bytes> | -t <text> } ] [ -o <outputFile> [ -v ] ] [ --unit <sizeUnit> ]
dadum -h | --sysinfo [ -v ]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the dadum command: The dadum command dumps random bytes --rnd-bytes or random text --rnd-text (with the according random text mode --rnd-text-mode) or data of recurring bytes --bytes or recurring text --text pattern of a given size --size (and unit --unit) to a file --output-file or STDOUT.

Depending on the executable’s flavor the command might also be named dadum-x.y.z.jar, dadum-bundle-x86_64-x.y.z.elf, dadum-bundle-x86_64-x.y.z.exe, dadum-installer-x86_64-x.y.z.msi, dadum-launcher-x.y.z.sh, dadum-launcher-x86_64-x.y.z.elf, dadum-launcher-x86_64-x.y.z.exe, dadum-native-x86_64-x.y.z.elf where x.y.z stands for the version of the dadum command. The according executable’s name will be referenced to in this manual as dadum.

OPTIONS

-b --bytes <bytes>: The message in bytes (e.g. "127, 128, 0x10, 0xFF") which to process.
-h --help: Shows this help.
-o --output-file <outputFile>: The output file which to process to.
--rnd-bytes: Use random bytes for generating binary output.
--rnd-text: Use random text for generating text output.
--rnd-text-mode <rndTextMode>: The random text mode for generating random text output: { ASCII, ALPHABETIC, UPPER_CASE, LOWER_CASE, ALPHANUMERIC, UPPER_CASE_ALPHANUMERIC, LOWER_CASE_ALPHANUMERIC, NUMERIC, BINARY, HEXADECIMAL }
-s --size <size>: The size of the data to be dumped (can be an expression such as "640 * 480", a value of or -1 will bomb your storage).
--sysinfo: Shows some system information for debugging purposes
-t --text <text>: The text message which to process.
--unit <sizeUnit>: The memory unit to use when calculating the size: { BYTE, KILOBYTE, MEGABYTE, GIGABYTE, TERABYTE, PETABYTE, EXABYTE, ZETTABYTE, YOTTABYTE }
-v --verbose: Enables the verbose mode with additional (human readable) informational output.

EXAMPLES

Dump random binary data to a file:

  • dadum -s <size> --rnd-bytes -o <outputFile> -v

Dump random text data to a file:

  • dadum -s <size> --rnd-text -o <outputFile> -v

Dump random text data using specified charset to a file:

  • dadum -s <size> --rnd-text --rnd-text-mode <rndTextMode> -o <outputFile> -v

Dump binary data using specified bytes (repeatedly) to a file:

  • dadum -s <size> -b <bytes> -o <outputFile> -v

Dump text data using specified text (repeatedly) to a file:

  • dadum -s <size> -t <text> -o <outputFile> -v

Dump random binary data to STDOUT:

  • dadum -s <size> --rnd-bytes -v

Dump random text data to STDOUT:

  • dadum -s <size> --rnd-text -v

Dump random text data using specified charset to STDOUT:

  • dadum -s <size> --rnd-text --rnd-text-mode <rndTextMode> -v

Dump binary data using specified bytes (repeatedly) to STDOUT:

  • dadum -s <size> -b <bytes> -v

Dump text data using specified text (repeatedly) to STDOUT:

  • dadum -s <size> -t <text> -v

To show the help text:

  • dadum -h

To print the system info:

  • dadum --sysinfo

BUGS

See BitBucket issues at <https://bitbucket.org/funcodez/funcodes-dadum/issues>

AUTHOR

Siegfried Steiner steiner@refcodes.org

SEE ALSO