MKRAND(1)

📦 version 0.1.0, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

🎲 MKRAND(1) 🎲

okay so bestie, this is mkrand from the TAG manual, section 1 — a whole little utility for generating random information and honestly it's giving main character energy 💅

✨ NAME ✨

mkrand — a utility for generating random information. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mkrand [-f format] [-n blocks] [-o filename] [--profile] [--verbose]

like literally just that. flags in, randomness out 😌

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea: MKRAND generates a random bitstream in 128-bit blocks. everything downstream is just how you want those blocks dressed up 💖

🎀 the -f, --format=<value> situation 🎀

this is the big one, so pay attention bestie — each value picks a different outfit for your random bits:

  • 0 — Pure 🌸 — when output goes to stdout, it prints a 32-character hexadecimal. when output goes to a file, it writes 16 bytes per block.
  • 1 — SHA1 🧚 — SHA1 Format.
  • 2 — Binary ⭐ — Text mode binary.
  • 4 — IPV4 🌈 — IPV4 Address.
  • 5 — GUID 👑 — Globally Unique ID.
  • 6 — IPV6 🦋 — IPV6 Address.
  • 8 — PSI 💜 — Time Fingerprint.
  • 10 — INT 🔥 — 32-bit Unsigned Integer.
  • 11 — UUID V4 🎀 — Universally Unique ID.
  • 12 — BASE64 ✨ — Text Encoding using Base64.

(not me noticing the numbers skip around — 3, 7, 9 said "not today" and honestly, respect 💀)

the rest of the flags 💅

  • -n — number of 128-bit blocks to generate. use 0 to generate continuously — and heads up, that continuous mode is stdout only 🙈.
  • -o — write output to a file. when format is 0, it will write 16 bytes for every block generated.
  • --profile — benchmark the local machine. it prints the following information:
    • Speed (bps)
    • Shannon Entropy (H)
  • --verbose — display internal operations while running. nosy but make it cute 🫶

MKRAND is Copyright (c) 2013, TAG Universal Machine, under the MIT License. 📜

and that's the whole page, bestie — no cap, you're now officially a mkrand girlie 🍓

signed off with love from the TAG crew — October 2014 edition 💖 (that's the source/version and date, mwah 😘)

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