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How to create a file with a given size in Linux?

dd if=/dev/zero of=upload_test bs=1M count=size_in_megabytes

How to create a file with a given size in Linux?

dd if=/dev/zero of=upload_test bs=file_size count=1

linux generate file of size

# Create a file of 5MB
# -s, --size
# truncate command extends or truncates a file to match
# the given size, if the file doesn't exist it creates it
truncate -s 5M dest-file.txt