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[-] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 1 month ago

Generate Random Numbers

I prefer to generate random words (mostly for generating passwords):

alias randword='head -$[$SRANDOM % `wc -l /usr/share/dict/words | cut -f1 -d" "`] /usr/share/dict/words | tail -1'

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

The 'random numbers' I mostly generate are UUIDs...

which can indeed be done nicely in the terminal by just reading directly from the kernel's rng at /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid

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