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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Generate unique mac address Post 302768157 by RudiC on Friday 8th of February 2013 05:07:35 AM
Old 02-08-2013
You know that there's more to MAC addresses than just a sequence of 6 HEX numbers separated by :. But, as vague as you are in your request, this will do:
Code:
$ awk 'BEGIN {while (i < 2000) {a=sprintf ("%.12X", i++); gsub(/../,"&:",a); sub(":$","",a); print a}}'
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bt-serial

bt-serial(1)							    bluez-tools 						      bt-serial(1)

NAME

       bt-serial - a bluetooth serial manager

SYNOPSIS

       bt-serial [OPTION...]

       Help Options:
	 -h, --help

       Application Options:
	 -a, --adapter=<name|mac>
	 -c, --connect <name|mac> <pattern>
	 -d, --disconnect <name|mac> <tty_device>

DESCRIPTION

       This utility is used to manage serial service connections.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	   Show help

       -a, --adapter <name|mac>
	   Specify adapter to use by his Name or MAC address
	   (if this option does not defined - default adapter used)

       -c, --connect <name|mac> <pattern>
	   Connects to a specific RFCOMM based service on a
	   remote device and then creates a RFCOMM TTY
	   device for it; `pattern` is a profile short name (spp, dun),
	   RFCOMM channel (1-30)

       -d, --disconnect <name|mac> <tty_device>
	   Disconnect a RFCOMM TTY device that has been created

AUTHOR

       Alexander Orlenko <zxteam@gmail.com>.

SEE ALSO

       bt-adapter(1) bt-agent(1) bt-audio(1) bt-device(1) bt-input(1) bt-monitor(1) bt-network(1)

								    2010-08-12							      bt-serial(1)
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