1 KB TSV sample file
A TSV file of exactly 1,024 bytes. It is a valid Tab-separated values file, generated for this site and checked with an independent parser. Use it wherever you need a 1 KB sample, test or dummy TSV file.
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- Type
- text/tab-separated-values
- SHA-256
126071ecf4ac1b3325bbc41af1e07f68891ec93f758f0c77ed5b53197020c523- Direct URL
https://www.sampletestfiles.com/downloads/tsv/sample-tsv-1kb.tsv
What is in this file
A header row and 7 rows of fictional customer records in 12 tab-separated columns, with no quoting. The notes field of the last row is lengthened so the file lands on the exact byte count.
| Data rows | 7 |
|---|---|
| Columns | 12 |
| Delimiter | Tab |
| Header row | Yes |
| Line endings | LF |
| Quoting | None: no field contains a tab or a line break |
| Encoding | UTF-8 (ASCII characters only) |
How the file begins
The opening lines of sample-tsv-1kb.tsv, exactly as they appear in the file.
id first_name last_name email phone city country signup_date plan balance active notes
1 Ethan Zeller ethan.zeller1@example.com +1-202-555-0163 Jaipur IN 2021-07-10 team 2769.84 true Billing contact changed recently
2 Elena Underhill elena.underhill2@example.net +1-202-555-0166 Porto Alegre BR 2024-04-28 free 4647.61 true Interested in bulk pricing
3 Ethan Farrow ethan.farrow3@example.org +1-202-555-0170 Krakow PL 2023-08-24 business 536.73 false Interested in bulk pricing
4 Victor Brennan victor.brennan4@example.com +1-202-555-0175 Lisbon PT 2024-12-18 business 2410.43 true Referred by an existing customer
5 Felix Ibarra felix.ibarra5@example.net +1-202-555-0171 Graz AT 2025-11-14 starter 2832.21 false Requested data export
6 Kira Hollis kira.hollis6@example.com +1-202-555-0109 Cork IE 2025-06-25 starter 3636.58 true Prefers invoices by emailPreview
Shows the file contents.
Where 1 KB matters
The smallest practical test file: 1,024 bytes, small enough to travel in a single network packet. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:
| System | Limit | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Ethernet | 1,500 bytes (typical MTU) | A 1 KB payload fits in one packet with its headers. |
| Browser cookies | 4,096 bytes per cookie | 1 KB is well inside the limit; the 5 KB sample is over it. |
Use this file for
- Smoke tests in CI that must run in milliseconds
- Testing import features that accept more than one delimiter
- Checking delimiter detection
Testing notes for TSV
- A field cannot contain a tab or a line break. Exporters deal with that in incompatible ways: some write backslash escapes such as \t, some apply CSV-style quotation marks, and some corrupt the row.
- An importer built for CSV may treat quotation marks in a TSV file as quoting and strip them from the data.
Technical details
| File name | sample-tsv-1kb.tsv |
|---|---|
| Format | TSV (Tab-separated values) |
| Extension | .tsv |
| MIME type | text/tab-separated-values |
| Size | 1,024 bytes (1 KB) |
| Kind | Text |
| SHA-256 | 126071ecf4ac1b3325bbc41af1e07f68891ec93f758f0c77ed5b53197020c523 |
| Created | 2026-10-10 |
| Validation | Exact size, signature bytes and structure checked when the file was generated |
| Preview | Available on this page |
| Source | Generated for this site; not copied from elsewhere |
| Licence | Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms) |
| Category | Spreadsheets |
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Download from the command line and verify
Fetch the file with curl, then compare its checksum with the SHA-256 value above.
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sha256sum sample-tsv-1kb.tsv # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-tsv-1kb.tsv # macOSOn Windows, run Get-FileHash sample-tsv-1kb.tsv -Algorithm SHA256 in PowerShell. A matching value proves that the download is complete and unaltered.
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Questions about this file
- Is this file exactly 1 KB?
- Yes. It is 1,024 bytes, which is 1 KB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
- What is inside the 1 KB TSV file?
- A header row and 7 rows of fictional customer records in 12 tab-separated columns, with no quoting. The notes field of the last row is lengthened so the file lands on the exact byte count.
- Do the TSV samples use quotation marks?
- No. No field contains a tab, a line break or a quotation mark, so the files read the same way under every TSV convention.