as you can see there is a delimiter after c8 "::". Awk sees the rest as fields because it doesn't recognize spaces and tabs as delimiters. So i am basically looking to isolate 20030003ba13f6cc. Can anyone help?
c8::20030003ba13f6cc disk connected configured unknown (2 Replies)
i have a several million line file like this:
M:charitygeneral:water:fairbanks:charitygeneral
field 2 and field 5 are the same
i want to read the file and rot13 or any caesar cipher field 2 and replace the with a random number 1 - 9
anyone know how to do this?
something slightly... (8 Replies)
Hello all, I'm working on an attendance callout script for a school district. I need to change our current layout for the vendor. Currently the data is in the form of:
studentid,period,building,
Heres a sample of some made up records:
500,1,30,
500,2,30,
500,3,30,
500,6,30,... (7 Replies)
Hallo
I have maybe a little bit advanced request....
I need to choose one random part betwen %....
so i have this..
%
text1 text1 text1
text1 text1 text1
text1 text1 text1
%
text2 text2
text2 text2 text2
%
text3 text3 text3
tetx3
%
this choose text between %
awk ' /%/... (8 Replies)
Hi - I have a word GTTCAGAGTTCTACAGTCCGACGAT
I need to extract all the possible "chunks" of 7 or above letter "words" from this.
SO, my out put should be
GTTCAGA
TTCAGAG
TCAGAGT
CAGAGTTCT
TCCGACGAT
CAGTCCGACG
etc.
How can I do that with awk or any other language? I have no... (2 Replies)
Hi
I am new to expect. Please if any one can help on my issue its really appreciable. here is my issue:
I want expect script for random passwords and random commands generation.
please can anyone help me?
Many Thanks in advance (0 Replies)
Hi, I have a small piece of awk code (see below) that generates random numbers.
gawk -F"," 'BEGIN { srand(); for (i = 1; i <= 30; i++) printf("%s AM329_%04d\n",$0,int(36 * rand())+1) }' OFS=, AM329_hole_names.csv
The code works fine and generates alphanumeric numbers like AM329_0001,... (2 Replies)
Need to use dd to generate a large file from a sample file of random data. This is because I don't have /dev/urandom.
I create a named pipe then:
dd if=mynamed.fifo do=myfile.fifo bs=1024 count=1024
but when I cat a file to the fifo that's 1024 random bytes:
cat randomfile.txt >... (7 Replies)
Dear UNIX Friends,
I was wondering if there is a random RGB color generator or any function in any unix platforms.
Please share your ideas.
Thanks (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jacobs.smith
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
read_random
RANDOM(9) BSD Kernel Developer's Manual RANDOM(9)NAME
arc4rand, arc4random, random, read_random, srandom -- supply pseudo-random numbers
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/libkern.h>
void
srandom(u_long seed);
u_long
random(void);
void
arc4rand(void *ptr, u_int length, int reseed);
uint32_t
arc4random(void);
#include <sys/random.h>
int
read_random(void *buffer, int count);
DESCRIPTION
The random() function will by default produce a sequence of numbers that can be duplicated by calling srandom() with '1' as the seed. The
srandom() function may be called with any arbitrary seed value to get slightly more unpredictable numbers. It is important to remember that
the random() function is entirely predictable, and is therefore not of use where knowledge of the sequence of numbers may be of benefit to an
attacker.
The arc4rand() function will return very good quality random numbers, slightly better suited for security-related purposes. The random num-
bers from arc4rand() are seeded from the entropy device if it is available. Automatic reseeds happen after a certain timeinterval and after
a certain number of bytes have been delivered. A forced reseed can be forced by passing a non-zero value in the reseed argument.
The read_random() function is used to return entropy directly from the entropy device if it has been loaded. If the entropy device is not
loaded, then the buffer is filled with output generated by random(). The buffer is filled with no more than count bytes. It is advised that
read_random() is not used; instead use arc4rand()
All the bits generated by random(), arc4rand() and read_random() are usable. For example, 'random()&01' will produce a random binary value.
The arc4random() is a convenience function which calls arc4rand() to return a 32 bit pseudo-random integer.
RETURN VALUES
The random() function uses a non-linear additive feedback random number generator employing a default table of size 31 long integers to
return successive pseudo-random numbers in the range from 0 to (2**31)-1. The period of this random number generator is very large, approxi-
mately 16*((2**31)-1).
The arc4rand() function uses the RC4 algorithm to generate successive pseudo-random bytes. The arc4random() function uses arc4rand() to gen-
erate pseudo-random numbers in the range from 0 to (2**32)-1.
The read_random() function returns the number of bytes placed in buffer.
AUTHORS
Dan Moschuk wrote arc4random().
Mark R V Murray wrote read_random().
BSD September 25, 2000 BSD