/rclone_test

title: "rclone test"
description: "Run a test command"
versionIntroduced: v1.55
# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/test/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"

> **Official documentation:** [https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test/](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_test/)

rclone test

Run a test command

Synopsis

Rclone test is used to run test commands.

Select which test command you want with the subcommand, eg

rclone test memory remote:

Each subcommand has its own options which you can see in their help.

**NB** Be careful running these commands, they may do strange things so reading their documentation first is recommended.

Options

  -h, --help   help for test

See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.

See Also

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• [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.
• [rclone test changenotify](/commands/rclone_test_changenotify/) - Log any change notify requests for the remote passed in.
• [rclone test histogram](/commands/rclone_test_histogram/) - Makes a histogram of file name characters.
• [rclone test info](/commands/rclone_test_info/) - Discovers file name or other limitations for paths.
• [rclone test makefile](/commands/rclone_test_makefile/) - Make files with random contents of the size given
• [rclone test makefiles](/commands/rclone_test_makefiles/) - Make a random file hierarchy in a directory
• [rclone test memory](/commands/rclone_test_memory/) - Load all the objects at remote:path into memory and report memory stats.
• [rclone test speed](/commands/rclone_test_speed/) - Run a speed test to the remote

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