In this Linux Escape Room episode I’m walking through Level 13, which is basically a “create a ton of files” challenge. The hint tells me my boss wants 1,000 files named in a specific format: file_<number>.txt where the number goes from 1 to 1000, and they need to live in /root/room1/files. So I start by creating the directory, cd’ing into it, and confirming the filename pattern before I generate anything. The big takeaway is how I automate repetitive stuff in Linux without wasting time. Sure, you could run touch 1,000 times, but that’s painful. Instead, I use a one-liner for loop that iterates over a sequence from 1 to 1000 and touches each file as it goes. In this container’s shell I use seq (sequence) to generate the numbers, then I verify the result with ls and a quick word count to confirm I actually made 1000 files. After that, I rerun the level script, grab the key, and escape the room.