Linux - Single command to create multiple test files, Example create x number of test files

Single command to create multiple test files

At time for testing purpose or when we do a study test we might require to create some thousands of files, abut actually we might not have such a testing environment. In linux machine you can achieve this by executing the below simple commands. For this kind of testing or learning purpose you can create a new directory called exam_test. After creating a directory execute the shell script for creating thousands of files.

 # mkdir exam_test

 # cd exam_test  

 # for i in `seq 1 30000`; do touch examples/$i.txt; done

This above script will create thirty thousand files. Touch is the command which is used to create files.

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