Commands tagged random

This is longer than others on here. The reason for this is I have combined two different matrix commands so it would work on all computers. I logged onto my server through a computer and it worked fine. I logged into my server through a mac and it looked $4!t so I have made one that works through both.

Unlike other alternatives, this command only relies on bash builtins and should also work on windows platforms with the bash executable.

Sparseness corresponds to the number 128 and can be adjusted. To print all possible digits instead of only 0 and 1 replace RANDOM%2 by RANDOM%10 or RANDOM%16 to add letters [A-F].

Silly Perl variant.

Random choose numbers from 1 to 100 with 5 seconds interval without duplicates.

Prints 0's and 1's in The Matrix style. You can easily modify to print 0-9 digits using $RANDOM %10 insted of %2.

/dev/random is said to by cryptographically secure, and unpredictable, as it gathers data from external sources, influenced by human timing interactions with computers, to fill the entropy pool. As such, this is a quick way to do a true random fair-6 dice roll. Using this method, you could easily create passphrases with Diceware http://diceware.com.

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This will parse a random command json entry from http://commandlinefu.com

A must have in your .bash_profile to learn new shell goodies at login!!!

Use this the next time you need to come up with a reasonably random bitstring, like for a WPA/WPA2 PSK or something. Takes a continuous stream of bytes coming from /dev/urandom, runs it through od(1), picking a random field ($0 and $1 excluded) from a random line and then prints it.

* grep -i leaves only mp3 files (case insentitive)

* sort -R randomizes list (may use GNU 'shuf' instead).

* the sed command will add double quotes around each filename (needed if odd characters are present)

Here's my version. It's a bit lengthy but I prefer it since it's all Bash.

Using urandom to get random data, deleting non-letters with tr and print the first $1 bytes.

If you don't have seq, you can use perl.

Ever need to get some text that is a specific number of characters long? Use this function to easily generate it! Doesn't look pretty, but sure does work for testing purposes!

Seeing that _sort_ its been used, why not just _use_ it. ;)

The pwgen program generates passwords which are designed to be easily memorized by humans, while being as secure as possible. Human-memorable passwords are never going to be as secure as completely completely random passwords. [from pwgen man page]

According to the gpg(1) manual:

--gen-random 0|1|2 count

Emit count random bytes of the given quality level 0, 1 or 2. If count is not given or zero, an endless sequence of random bytes will be emitted. If used with --armor the output will be base64 encoded. PLEASE, don't use this command unless you know what you are doing; it may remove precious entropy from the system!

If your entropy pool is critical for various operations on your system, then using this command is not recommended to generate a secure password. With that said, regenerating entropy is as simple as:

This is a quick way to generate a strong, base64 encoded, secure password of arbitrary length, using your entropy pool (example above shows a 30-character long password).

Give files a random name (don't ask why :-)

The function will rename files but maintain their extensions.

BUG: If a file doesn't have an extension it will end up with a dot at the end of the name.

The parameter '8' for pwgen controls the length of filenames - eight random characters.

Also looks in subfolders

I used only shuf command.

Here's a bash version using an array.

Choose random file from current folder. Avoids using ls.