Johannes Sixt <j...@kdbg.org> writes: > If the data does not have to be a sequence of zero bytes, the > alternatives are: > > * `test-genrandom seed-string $size` for a sequence of reproducible > "random" bytes > > * `printf "%0*d" $size 0` for a sequence of '0' characters. > > In t5318, the zero bytes do matter, though.
Also some consumers of these bytes may not be easy to read from a pipe.
