How can I create 1000 files that I can use to test a script?

Question

I would like to create 1000+ text files with some text to test a script, how to create this much if text files at a go using shell script or Perl. Please could anyone help me?

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash
seq 1 1000 | split -l 1 -a 3 -d - file

Above will create 1000 files with each file having a number from 1 to 1000. The files will be named from file000 to file999.

Answer 2

for i in {0001..1000}
do
  echo "some text" > "file_${i}.txt"
done

or if you want to use Python <2.6

for x in range(1000):
    open("file%03d.txt" % x,"w").write("some text")