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.

well, it has Python, so yes, it can write arbitrary files to disk

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.

Personally, I like Python though.

and of course there is a Shell ROP

Nobody has explicitly mentioned the Python SOP, so I'll throw that in there as well.

It'll execute its script whenever it cooks, which may be really convenient or really annoying depending on what you're doing.

Python! Of course…*facepalm*

Thx everyone!