A Cool Way to Create Multiple Files for your Project in WSL/WSL2
TL:DR - Batch create files with the Linux "touch" command
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Thanks for the inspiration. I also read somewhere that to create large random file, command below might be useful:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=random.bin bs=1M count=1000
It can be used from within WSL on Windows 10 also.
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The above code results in the creation of an empty index.ts file
The above code will result in the creation of 10 LOG files serially numbered and prefixed with the acc name
Now in my particular scenario, I wanted an easier way to create 10 files with the .graphql extension. My final resolve was to use the brace expansion command and type out all the file names in one instance then assign the files with the .graphql extension as shown below.
The above code resulted in my expected result of 10 files with a .graphql extension
This worked to my satisfaction and was a deserved win from my google research session. All the tabs that were open during the research can now be closed