In my search for a command-line fake data generator I’ve found phony. What can I say, the tool does exactly what it should! After installation, you no longer need to leave the terminal.

Installation

# install go and git (Debian 8)
$ apt-get install -y golang git

# set GOPATH environment variable for workspace
$ mkdir ~/.go
$ echo "GOPATH=$HOME/.go" >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo "export GOPATH" >> ~/.bashrc
$ echo "PATH=\$PATH:\$GOPATH/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
$ source ~/.bashrc

# install phony
$ go get github.com/yields/phony

# verfiy installation
$ phony --version

Usage

# show help
$ phony --help

# list phony generators
$ phony --list

# generate 10 e-mails
$ echo '{{email}}' | phony --max 10

# generate 5 users (first name, last name)
$ echo 'User: {{name.first}} {{name.last}}' | phony --max 5

There is more! Look at the examples!