5 MB TXT sample file
A TXT file of exactly 5,242,880 bytes. It is a valid Plain text file, generated for this site and checked with an independent parser.
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sample-txt-5mb.txt
5 MB5,242,880 bytes
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- Type
- text/plain
- SHA-256
cb59157f5f21d99a0a41ba262b5e6b565911d93de4e986fb3c81894996af3b34- Direct URL
https://sampletestfiles.com/downloads/txt/sample-txt-5mb.txt
What is in this file
52,743 numbered lines of plain English text, each prefixed with its line number and starting byte offset so truncation is easy to spot. A closing rule of "=" characters brings the file to the exact size.
| Numbered lines | 52,743 |
|---|---|
| Encoding | UTF-8 (ASCII characters only) |
| Line endings | LF (Unix) |
How the file begins
The opening lines of sample-txt-5mb.txt, exactly as they appear in the file.
SampleTestFiles sample text file (5 MB)
Encoding: ASCII, which is also valid UTF-8. Line endings: LF.
Each numbered line starts with its line number and the byte offset at which it begins.
0000001 000000190 This sample file exists so that software can be tested with realistic input.
0000002 000000285 Every line in this document was generated by a script and describes nothing confidential.
0000003 000000393 Use it to check that uploads, downloads and parsers behave the way you expect.
0000004 000000490 The file was built to an exact byte count, which makes size limits easy to verify.
0000005 000000591 If the last line of this file is missing, the transfer was cut short.
0000006 000000679 A good test fixture is boring, predictable and identical every time it is downloaded.
0000007 000000783 Compare the checksum published on the download page with the one you compute locally.Preview
Shows the first 64 KB of the file.
Where 5 MB matters
A 5,242,880-byte file: the size of a phone photo and the minimum part size for S3 multipart uploads. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:
| System | Limit | Note |
|---|---|---|
| PHP | 2 MB per uploaded file by default (upload_max_filesize) | A 5 MB upload fails on an untuned PHP installation. |
| Vercel Functions | 4.5 MB request body | Larger uploads must go directly to object storage. |
| Amazon S3 multipart upload | 5 MiB minimum part size | This file is exactly one minimum part. |
| AWS Lambda | 6 MB synchronous invocation payload | 5 MB of binary data exceeds it once base64-encoded. |
| Browser localStorage | About 5 MB per origin | Storing this file as text fills the quota. |
| Django | 2.5 MB in memory by default | Larger uploads are streamed to a temporary file instead of held in memory. |
Use this file for
- Simulating photo uploads from phones
- Baseline upload and download tests
- Checking encoding handling
Testing notes for TXT
- An empty or whitespace-only file is still a valid text file and is worth a test of its own.
- Plain text compresses very well, so a 10 MB text file may travel as a fraction of that when gzip or Brotli is enabled. Use the BIN samples when you need incompressible bytes.
Technical details
| File name | sample-txt-5mb.txt |
|---|---|
| Format | TXT (Plain text) |
| Extension | .txt |
| MIME type | text/plain |
| Size | 5,242,880 bytes (5 MB) |
| Kind | Text |
| SHA-256 | cb59157f5f21d99a0a41ba262b5e6b565911d93de4e986fb3c81894996af3b34 |
| 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 | Documents |
Validated for expected format and integrity. As with any download, scan the file with your own security tools before opening it. How files are made and checked
Download from the command line and verify
Fetch the file with curl, then compare its checksum with the SHA-256 value above.
curl -o sample-txt-5mb.txt 'https://sampletestfiles.com/downloads/txt/sample-txt-5mb.txt'
sha256sum sample-txt-5mb.txt # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-txt-5mb.txt # macOSOn Windows, run Get-FileHash sample-txt-5mb.txt -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 5 MB?
- Yes. It is 5,242,880 bytes, which is 5 MB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
- What is inside the 5 MB TXT file?
- 52,743 numbered lines of plain English text, each prefixed with its line number and starting byte offset so truncation is easy to spot. A closing rule of "=" characters brings the file to the exact size.
- Why does each line start with numbers?
- Each line carries its line number and the byte offset where it begins. If a transfer is truncated or corrupted you can see exactly where.