One line shell script: generate large number of dummy files

The following command generate 10,000 dummy files (16KB)

i=0; while [[ $i -lt 10000 ]]; do dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=16 of=dummy${i}; i=$((i+1)); done

On Mac OS:

i=0; while [[ $i -lt 10000 ]]; do mkfile 16k dummy${i}; i=$((i+1)); done