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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <!-- - Copyright (C) 2000-2021 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") - - This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public - License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this - file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. --> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>genrandom</title> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"> <link rel="home" href="Bv9ARM.html" title="BIND 9 Administrator Reference Manual"> <link rel="up" href="Bv9ARM.ch13.html" title="Manual pages"> <link rel="prev" href="man.dnstap-read.html" title="dnstap-read"> <link rel="next" href="man.host.html" title="host"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span class="application">genrandom</span></th></tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"> <a accesskey="p" href="man.dnstap-read.html">Prev</a>�</td> <th width="60%" align="center">Manual pages</th> <td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="man.host.html">Next</a> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> </div> <div class="refentry"> <a name="man.genrandom"></a><div class="titlepage"></div> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2>Name</h2> <p><span class="application">genrandom</span> — generate a file containing random data</p> </div> <div class="refsynopsisdiv"> <h2>Synopsis</h2> <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> </div> <div class="refsection"> <a name="id-1.14.18.7"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> <p> <span class="command"><strong>genrandom</strong></span> generates a file or a set of files containing a specified quantity of pseudo-random data, which can be used as a source of entropy for other commands on systems with no random device. </p> </div> <div class="refsection"> <a name="id-1.14.18.8"></a><h2>ARGUMENTS</h2> <div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"> <dt><span class="term">-n <em class="replaceable"><code>number</code></em></span></dt> <dd><p> In place of generating one file, generates <code class="option">number</code> (from 2 to 9) files, appending <code class="option">number</code> to the name. </p></dd> <dt><span class="term">size</span></dt> <dd><p> The size of the file, in kilobytes, to generate. </p></dd> <dt><span class="term">filename</span></dt> <dd><p> The file name into which random data should be written. </p></dd> </dl></div> </div> <div class="refsection"> <a name="id-1.14.18.9"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2> <p> <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">rand</span>(3)</span>, <span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">arc4random</span>(3)</span> </p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"> <a accesskey="p" href="man.dnstap-read.html">Prev</a>�</td> <td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="Bv9ARM.ch13.html">Up</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="man.host.html">Next</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"> <span class="application">dnstap-read</span>�</td> <td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="Bv9ARM.html">Home</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top">�host</td> </tr> </table> </div> <p xmlns:db="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" style="text-align: center;">BIND 9.11.36 (Extended Support Version)</p> </body> </html>
