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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Create a file with aleatory text Post 302233851 by drl on Monday 8th of September 2008 04:24:10 PM
Old 09-08-2008
Hi.

I don't have any small scripts, but you can combine several sources, perhaps with :
Quote:
Description: Automated Password Generator - Standalone version
APG (Automated Password Generator) is the tool set for random
password generation. It generates some random words of required type
and prints them to standard output.

APG (Automated Pasword Generator)

-- excerpt from GNU/Debian apt-cache show apg
like this:
Code:
#!/bin/bash -

# @(#) s1       Demonstrate methods to generate random text.

echo
echo "(Versions displayed with local utility \"version\")"
version >/dev/null 2>&1 && version "=o" $(_eat $0 $1)
set -o nounset

echo
echo " Results of apg:"
apg -n 6 -M l -m 6 -x 10

echo
echo " Results of gpp:"
gpp -n 6

echo
echo " Sample of dictionary:"
sample -6 ~/etc/data/dict/words

echo
cat <<EOF

# Analyze a piece of text; one such (Chapter 1 of Moby Dick) had
# ratios of the following sentence terminators:
#
#       ".": 76%
#       "?": 17%
#       "!":  7%
#
# Similarly for length of sentences.
EOF

echo
echo " Sample of mixture:"
sentence 10 |
fmt

exit 0

Producing -- one instance:
Code:
% ./s1

(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
Linux 2.6.11-x1
GNU bash 2.05b.0

 Results of apg:
nubchaydna
gahognes
jonhaphous
tratharu
dikopemtyi
oorbyadeb

 Results of gpp:
ork
ulvind
indalvidst
ilk
spotchict
ifadgebs

 Sample of dictionary:
athletic
combinatorial
electroencephalogram
exhortation
junk
procedural


# Analyze a piece of text; one such (Chapter 1 of Moby Dick) had
# ratios of the following sentence terminators:
#
#       ".": 76%
#       "?": 17%
#       "!":  7%
#
# Similarly for length of sentences.

 Sample of mixture:
Opthalmic toenail clown lockstep NASA Moulton dowry Dana except.

Shall Frenchmen Mekong pupil buckwheat tonsil preeminent scopic Dirac
impost draftsmen.  Comatose insolvent bound crumy, smibsatch shutchals
Mona fife secretion?  Rail Paterson weird Gustavus aggressive successor
prong.  Kombu brutch friable comprehend pallid scandium?

Deane Leviticus pathway flack influential amphibian crochet.
Smot edgorchifte adrenal rhombus shrift shodsodgunth semaphore Elton.
Dorcas epigenetic firm olchentems clothesman brainchildren legitimate
rather Windsor srakajy struds?  Chiefdom pothole pax adolescent acceptant
irreclaimable magnetron!  Calvert Sophia collegiate clapboard Toby
empumpe figural could rouge bolt.

cheers, drl
 

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