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c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="man.genrandom">
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <refentryinfo>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <corpauthor>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.</corpauthor>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </refentryinfo>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <refentrytitle><application>genrandom</application></refentrytitle>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <refnamediv>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <refname><application>genrandom</application></refname>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <refpurpose>generate a file containing random data</refpurpose>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </refnamediv>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <holder>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")</holder>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </copyright>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <refsynopsisdiv>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><option>-n <replaceable class="parameter">number</replaceable></option></arg>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <arg choice="req" rep="norepeat"><replaceable class="parameter">size</replaceable></arg>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <arg choice="req" rep="norepeat"><replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable></arg>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </cmdsynopsis>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </refsynopsisdiv>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <refsection><info><title>DESCRIPTION</title></info>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan generates a file or a set of files containing a specified quantity
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan of pseudo-random data, which can be used as a source of entropy for
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan other commands on systems with no random device.
38e4ad89ca32c4c0a5bb2acae7e9b2e89ac210d1JazzyNico </refsection>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <refsection><info><title>ARGUMENTS</title></info>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <variablelist>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <varlistentry>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <term>-n <replaceable class="parameter">number</replaceable></term>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan In place of generating one file, generates <option>number</option>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan (from 2 to 9) files, appending <option>number</option> to the name.
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </varlistentry>
d380b9443b463cec3bc1bdb313452647858fd88btheAdib <varlistentry>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan The size of the file, in kilobytes, to generate.
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </varlistentry>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <varlistentry>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan The file name into which random data should be written.
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </varlistentry>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </variablelist>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </refsection>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <citerefentry>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <refentrytitle>rand</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </citerefentry>,
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <citerefentry>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan <refentrytitle>arc4random</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </citerefentry>
c556b852adbbb75d16564cf48962727ac3b916b4Chris Morgan </refsection>