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

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For small files:

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

Where file_size is the size of your test file in bytes.

For big files:

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

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