{"id":3297,"date":"2022-12-20T17:02:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/genrandom-man8\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T17:02:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:02:16","slug":"genrandom-man8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/2022\/12\/20\/genrandom-man8\/","title":{"rendered":"GENRANDOM (man8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 align=\"center\">GENRANDOM<\/h1>\n<p> <a href=\"#NAME\">NAME<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#SYNOPSIS\">SYNOPSIS<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#DESCRIPTION\">DESCRIPTION<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#ARGUMENTS\">ARGUMENTS<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#SEE ALSO\">SEE ALSO<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#AUTHOR\">AUTHOR<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"#COPYRIGHT\">COPYRIGHT<\/a> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>NAME <a name=\"NAME\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">genrandom \u2212 generate a file containing random data<\/p>\n<h2>SYNOPSIS <a name=\"SYNOPSIS\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" rules=\"none\" frame=\"void\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\" align=\"left\">\n<td width=\"11%\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"60%\">\n<p style=\"margin-top: 1em\"><b>genrandom<\/b> [<b>\u2212n\u00a0<\/b><i>number<\/i>] {<i>size<\/i>} {<i>filename<\/i>}<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"29%\"> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>DESCRIPTION <a name=\"DESCRIPTION\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>genrandom<\/b> generates a file or a set of files containing a specified quantity of pseudo\u2212random data, which can be used as a source of entropy for other commands on systems with no random device.<\/p>\n<h2>ARGUMENTS <a name=\"ARGUMENTS\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">\u2212n <i>number<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:17%;\">In place of generating one file, generates <b>number<\/b> (from 2 to 9) files, appending <b>number<\/b> to the name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">size<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:17%;\">The size of the file, in kilobytes, to generate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">filename<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:17%;\">The file name into which random data should be written.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO <a name=\"SEE ALSO\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>rand<\/b>(3), <b>arc4random<\/b>(3)<\/p>\n<h2>AUTHOR <a name=\"AUTHOR\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\"><b>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>COPYRIGHT <a name=\"COPYRIGHT\"><\/a> <\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em\">Copyright \u00a9 2009-2011, 2014-2016, 2018-2021 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. (&#8220;ISC&#8221;)<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  genrandom \u2212 generate a file containing random data <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,52,429,4],"class_list":["post-3297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-administracion-del-sistema","tag-5","tag-administracion","tag-genrandom","tag-man8"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lode.uno\/linux-man\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}