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# Making Logs for Teaching
- URL: https://www.workroom-productions.com/making-logs-for-teaching/
- Published: 2025-02-07T15:50:21.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-07T15:50:21.000Z
- Description: Pointer to a github repo of tools that make logs
- Author: James Lyndsay
- Tags: Tools

When I'm testing, I spend time with logs.

I don't have a go-to library of log makers to use when I want to teach someone how I use logs.

So I've started one of my own:

[GitHub - workroomprds/logmaker: a repo to contain various tools to make logs, so that people can play with logsa repo to contain various tools to make logs, so that people can play with logs - workroomprds/logmaker![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/7e/30/7e30843b-2abb-494a-ab80-0e931d8ae9a9/content/images/icon/pinned-octocat-093da3e6fa40-2.svg)GitHubworkroomprds![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/7e/30/7e30843b-2abb-494a-ab80-0e931d8ae9a9/content/images/thumbnail/logmaker)](https://github.com/workroomprds/logmaker)

## Contents

### Logmaker.sh

`logmaker.sh`: a short shell script to generate a rapidly-updating log. The log is size-limited, and meaningless. It's random., but not uniformly random. It's multi-process and headless, so it does have job control – call with `start` to start, and `stop` to stop. It writes to `/tmp/simulated_log.txt` and puts another two files into `/tmp` – use at your own risk.