Quickly create some test files

I was wanting to test some things recently, this is a quick way I create many files in a directory.

This is how I do it in bash

for files in {1..10}
do
touch $files
done

Or another way in bash

touch {1..10}.txt

Another example using Python this time

for i in range(1, 101):
   f=open(str(i)+'.txt','w')
   f.close()
   

If you had a list of names, or countries etc, this perl one liner will create all the files based on each line of the file

perl -ne 'chomp; `touch $_`;' filename.txt

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