Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:15:07 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool Message-ID: <20021008091507.GB2798@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20021008002612.C35848-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <200210062207.g96M7NgO056867@lurza.secnetix.de> <20021008002612.C35848-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:30:27AM -0400, Peter Leftwich wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@video2video.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > > > > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Mikko Ty?l?j?rvi wrote: > > > > > tr -cd a-zA-Z0-9 < /dev/urandom | dd bs=$len count=1 2>/dev/null > > > It didn't work. My shell is tcsh so I tried: > > > tr -cd a-zA-Z0-9 < /dev/urandom | dd bs=8 count=1 >& /dev/null > > > And all I got was the next prompt. > > > Yep, csh and tcsh suck pretty much. Not being able to separately > > redirect stderr easily is one of the reasons. > > Bizarre. From now on I'll have to insert `bash ; ` before commands :) Umm, that won't work, but I really can't tell if you're joking or not. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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