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Read random news on the internet

sort -R randomize the list. head -n1 takes the first.
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links `lynx -dump -listonly "http://news.google.com" | grep -Eo "(http|https)://[a-zA-Z0-9./?=_-]*" | grep -v "google.com" | sort -R | uniq | head -n1`

mogoh · 2016-07-26 12:54:53 23
Generate Random Text based on Length

Random text of length "$1" without the useless cat command.
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genRandomText() { tr -cd '[:alpha:]' < /dev/urandom | head -c "$1"; }

SouthwindCG · 2018-06-05 03:41:14 327
Generate Random Text based on Length
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genRandomText() { local n=$1; while [ $((n--)) -gt 0 ]; do printf "\x$(printf %x $((RANDOM % 26 + 65)))" ; done ; echo ; }

ginochen · 2018-06-27 01:04:45 359
generate random mac-address using md5sum + sed

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```
$ date | md5sum | sed -r 's/(..){3}/\1:/g;s/\s+-$//'
78:3a:dc:2a:9c:df
```
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date | md5sum | sed -r 's/(..){3}/\1:/g;s/\s+-$//'

acavagni · 2019-07-13 10:39:21 39
Cryptographically secure 32-bit RNG in strict ZSH

ZSH ships a couple random number generators via the $RANDOM environment variable and rand48() via zsh/mathfunc, but neither are cryptographically secure. This code produces a 32-bit random number suitable for cryptography. It's only dependency is /dev/urandom and it does not rely on any shell commands or 3rd party utilities. It assumes ZSH was compiled with 64-bit integer support. Show Sample Output
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```
1018359216
```
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srandom() { zmodload zsh/system; local byte; local -i rnd=0; repeat 4; do sysread -s 1 byte || return; rnd=$(( rnd << 8 | #byte )); done < /dev/urandom; print -r -- $rnd; }

atoponce · 2020-12-17 13:39:17 288
Substitution cipher

This is just for fun. Show Sample Output
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```
yOCvVO RBTb
```
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echo "Decode this"| tr [a-zA-Z] $(echo {a..z} {A..Z}|grep -o .|sort -R|tr -d "\n ")

dennisw · 2009-09-18 06:38:28 38
Outputs a 10-digit random number

Makes use of $RANDOM environment variable.
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head -c10 <(echo $RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM)

jgc · 2009-10-09 15:09:02 6
command line fu roulette

Splitting on tags in awk is a handy way to parse html.
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curl -sL 'www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random' | awk -F'</?[^>]+>' '/"command"/{print $2}'

putnamhill · 2010-08-13 11:42:42 6
Generate Random Text based on Length

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! Show Sample Output
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```
[bbbco ~]$ genRandomText 122
onzwxfeknlnvycuccvki dybtrqibdpgl aeclwkfpuxkohucy cqlmpbkwgcqesimxupdkqiymucljhitffb czegujyofidnxnvrkolhmudslpklbjnpmun
[bbbco ~]$ genRandomText 122 | wc -m
122

[bbbco ~]$ genRandomText 27
b bpglferrcsrtveiop umn nq
[bbbco ~]$ genRandomText 27 | wc -m
27
```
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genRandomText() { a=( a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z );f=0;for i in $(seq 1 $(($1-1))); do r=$(($RANDOM%26)); if [ "$f" -eq 1 -a $(($r%$i)) -eq 0 ]; then echo -n " ";f=0;continue; else f=1;fi;echo -n ${a[$r]};done;echo"";}

bbbco · 2012-01-20 21:18:16 5
Generate Random Text based on Length

Using urandom to get random data, deleting non-letters with tr and print the first $1 bytes.
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genRandomText() { cat /dev/urandom|tr -dc 'a-zA-Z'|head -c $1 }

thomasba · 2012-01-21 00:51:34 4
Generate Random Text based on Length

Here's my version. It's a bit lengthy but I prefer it since it's all Bash.
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genRandomText() { x=({a..z}); for(( i=0; i<$1; i++ )); do printf ${x[$((RANDOM%26))]}; done; printf "\n"; }

uxseven · 2012-01-26 08:19:33 4
Generate random password, human readable with no special characters.
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false; while [ $? != 0 ]; do apg -c /dev/urandom -n1 -E oOlL10 | egrep '^[[:alnum:]]+$'; done

evolix · 2012-04-24 08:30:28 5
Generate a random password 30 characters long

Use less random number resources and less commands
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head -c 24 /dev/urandom | base64

henix · 2013-09-28 16:32:47 8
Bingo-like raffle

This one is for OS X users: sort -R and shuf aren't available in Lion (10.7.5)
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yes 'echo $(( RANDOM%100+1 )); sleep 5' | bash

stx · 2013-11-09 16:22:59 7
Generate a random alphanumeric string (works on Mac)
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cat /dev/urandom | strings | grep -o '[[:alnum:]]' | head -n 15 | tr -d '\n'; echo

rekky · 2015-01-31 23:07:23 9
Random Number Between 1 And X

This provides better, but not perfect, distribution, and it works for 2^32 ≤ X ≤ 2^64. (A robust distribution requires iteration/recursion and an indeterminate amount of randomness.)
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(od -An -t u8 -N8 </dev/urandom; echo X '* 2 64^/1+p') | dc

imuli · 2015-02-15 19:14:24 9
Generate a directory path based on the date and time

Great for backup / restore scripts. May want to remove the %M/%S to group backups by hour. If using a script, set a variable earlier with the date command, then reference that variable. Otherwise, time will keep on rolling ;-) declare -rx script_start_time="$(date '+./%Y/%m/%d/%H/%M/%S')" mkdir -p "$script_start_time" Show Sample Output
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```
forest@murgatroyd:~/2015/11/21/00/39/56$ pwd
/home/forest/2015/11/21/00/39/56
```
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mkdir -p "$(date '+./%Y/%m/%d/%H/%M/%S')"

forestb · 2015-09-25 08:56:26 11
Generate File and Checksum with pseudo-random Content and Size in Bash

Create a file with random binary content. Required pv, units packages. It use openssl to encrypt zeros using aes-256 and time stamp as password to generate a pseudo-random file. Show Sample Output
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```
e.g. size=1G will generate 2 file:
1G
1G.md5

You can check file with
md5sum -c 1G.md5
```
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s=1G bs=16K; count=`units ${s}iB ${bs}iB -1 -t --out="%.f"`; openssl enc -aes-256-ctr -pass pass:`date +%s%N` -nosalt < /dev/zero 2>/dev/null | dd iflag=fullblock bs=$bs count=$count | tee $s | pv -s $s | md5sum | sed -e "s/-/$s/" > ${s}.md5

jcppkkk · 2015-09-30 06:27:39 10
get a random regex match from a file

seed the random number generator, find all matches in a file put all matches from the capture group into an array return a random element from the array Show Sample Output
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```
25
```
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awk 'BEGIN{srand()} match($0, /DELTA=([0-9]+);/, a) {w[i++]=a[1]} END {print w[int(rand()*i)]}' file.name

jkirchartz · 2015-11-13 17:56:34 11
Password server

This server can be access by a browser or other remote terminal with ncat. I have to use de test && break to allow ctrl-c to close. Show Sample Output
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```
#abGqHf=MM
o_DoB5da`#
```
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while [ 1 ]; do cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc ' -~' | head -c 10 | ncat -l 8080 &> /dev/null; test $? -gt 128 && break; done

xxjcaxx · 2016-05-04 14:36:47 10
Create some random sounds

This might one day deliver the melody to the next super hit on the radio if played long enough
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python -c "import os; print([i * bytearray(os.urandom(10)) for i in bytearray(os.urandom(10000))])" | padsp tee /dev/audio > /dev/null

BigZ · 2016-08-03 20:15:43 25

generate a one-time pad

Piping dd through pv allows to control the size ot the output file and allows for feedback on speed and progress. Sample output is 128 bytes as seen with xxd. See also: http://www.red-bean.com/onetime/#pad-generation Show Sample Output

dd if=/dev/random | pv -ptab --size 128 --stop-at-size | dd of=~/.onetime/to_foo.pad

m4r14n0ju · 2016-10-05 16:14:03 18

generate a one-time pad

Taken from http://www.red-bean.com/onetime/#pad-generation Show Sample Output

dd if=/dev/random of=~/.onetime/to_foo.pad bs=1000 count=1

m4r14n0ju · 2016-10-07 11:31:37 18

get a random command-line-fu tip

You can put this at .bashrc or .profile and get a random tip every time you open a terminal Show Sample Output
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```
# commandlinefu.com - questions/comments: tech@commandlinefu.com

# get a random command-line-fu tip
w3m -dump http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random/plaintext

# AD: Diff 2 entire servers at ScriptRock.com
```
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w3m -dump http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/random/plaintext

noobcodr · 2017-05-14 02:11:12 22
Continuous random string of text
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while true; do sleep .15; head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9; done

allyman17 · 2018-10-10 18:57:34 574
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In this case searches for where .desktop files are stored. The resulted is a sorted list of the top directories containing such files.

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