FileAndFolderGenerator 1.0.0

File and folder generator

It is nothing more than a bit of a "numpty" project. It is basically a script to create a ton of random files quickly, it randomises between the following file extensions (XLSX, DOCX, TXT, SQL, PDF, CS).

It randomly might cause nested folders (by design) and also change the file created dates. It will produce a maximum of a 100 files per folder, and no more than 15 nested folders.

All files are created with no content which means if trying to open a file depends on the application used to open it whether it will behave or not, but this isn't about whats inside, its all about whats on the outside!

By default, when the program is run, it will create a files directory in the bin folder, if you want to change this location, edit line 11 of Program.cs to point to whereever you like.

When run in debug mode, it will automatically delete the files directory and recreate it in the name of housekeeping!

You can change the amount of files per folder, and number of root folders it produces by changing the FOLDER_COUNT_MAX and FILE_COUNT_MAX constants. The project requires the .NET 8 runtime.

You are free to do whatever you like with this without licence, but there is no warranty and I can not be held liable for whatever stupid things you decide to try and do with it!

An example of how wild it can be, it takes just 27.5 seconds to generate 18,754 files across 436 folders!

Running as a dotnet global tool

I decided as part of a bit of fun to also create this as a dotnet tool. To install, simply run dotnet tool update --global FileAndFolderGenerator, once installed you can just run GenerateDummyFilesAndFolders and it will create the files directory in whatever folder you're currently in

Enjoy

Chris