Sunshine (she/her)@piefed.social to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 10 hours ago7 Useful Things You Didn’t Know You Can Do in Your Linux Terminalwww.maketecheasier.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down15
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minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 hours 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'
minus-squareOoops@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 hours agoThe ‘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
I prefer to generate random words (mostly for generating passwords):
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