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35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="man.genrandom">
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering <refentryinfo>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering <corpauthor>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.</corpauthor>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering </refentryinfo>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering <refentrytitle><application>genrandom</application></refentrytitle>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering <refname><application>genrandom</application></refname>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering <refpurpose>generate a file containing random data</refpurpose>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering <holder>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")</holder>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering <refsynopsisdiv>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering <arg choice="opt" rep="norepeat"><option>-n <replaceable class="parameter">number</replaceable></option></arg>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering <arg choice="req" rep="norepeat"><replaceable class="parameter">size</replaceable></arg>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering <arg choice="req" rep="norepeat"><replaceable class="parameter">filename</replaceable></arg>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering </cmdsynopsis>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering </refsynopsisdiv>
35911459410714a0e9108b35da78f96919b65ee7Lennart Poettering <refsection><info><title>DESCRIPTION</title></info>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering generates a file or a set of files containing a specified quantity
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering of pseudo-random data, which can be used as a source of entropy for
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering other commands on systems with no random device.
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering <refsection><info><title>ARGUMENTS</title></info>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering <variablelist>
40e21da873c120936faff0aa42a6533f6933edf7Kay Sievers <varlistentry>
40e21da873c120936faff0aa42a6533f6933edf7Kay Sievers <term>-n <replaceable class="parameter">number</replaceable></term>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering In place of generating one file, generates <option>number</option>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering (from 2 to 9) files, appending <option>number</option> to the name.
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering </varlistentry>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering <varlistentry>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering The size of the file, in kilobytes, to generate.
156f7d09add8fc93cae8a3f13adcb2564931fee4Kay Sievers </varlistentry>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering <varlistentry>
40e21da873c120936faff0aa42a6533f6933edf7Kay Sievers The file name into which random data should be written.
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering </varlistentry>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering </variablelist>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering <refsection><info><title>SEE ALSO</title></info>
6aa8d43ade72e24c9426e604f7fc4b7582b9db7cLennart Poettering <citerefentry>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering <refentrytitle>rand</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering </citerefentry>,
6aa8d43ade72e24c9426e604f7fc4b7582b9db7cLennart Poettering <citerefentry>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering <refentrytitle>arc4random</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
85d683970b7dc2c4470b2b7d60c3d9dce28c1471Lennart Poettering </citerefentry>