Normally I might fire up bash and write a quick script to generate some test data for whatever reason. For example, 100 random numbers in the range of 0-1. Then I started wondering if my new favorite tool (hint: Houdini) could do this.
Other ways: - Use hscript, which is like a shell language and so you just do stuff like “echo foo $tx >> file_path” - Use VEX and just redirect Houdini output to a file.