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af28f636873b7156cfd73ceffa927658cca33fd0Enrico Perla - Sun Microsystems<p><span class="application">genrandom</span> — generate a file containing random data</p>
14d44f2248cc2a54490db7f7caa4da5968f90837Hans Rosenfeld<div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">genrandom</code> [<code class="option">-n <em class="replaceable"><code>number</code></em></code>] {<em class="replaceable"><code>size</code></em>} {<em class="replaceable"><code>filename</code></em>}</p></div>
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af28f636873b7156cfd73ceffa927658cca33fd0Enrico Perla - Sun Microsystems <span><strong class="command">genrandom</strong></span>
af28f636873b7156cfd73ceffa927658cca33fd0Enrico Perla - Sun Microsystems generates a file or a set of files containing a specified quantity
af28f636873b7156cfd73ceffa927658cca33fd0Enrico Perla - Sun Microsystems of pseudo-random data, which can be used as a source of entropy for
af28f636873b7156cfd73ceffa927658cca33fd0Enrico Perla - Sun Microsystems other commands on systems with no random device.