How To Create A Dummy File In Linux

If  you ever find a need to test upload/download speeds to and from your web server, creating a dummy file of a fixed size can be a very quick and handy way to do this. Thankfully, if  you are running a Linux server, the dd command(convert and copy a file) can be used for exactly this purpose. To create a dummy file of 50MB, we first need to convert the file size into bytes (1024 x 1024 x 50 =...