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| Jun 17, 2014 at 16:57 | comment | added | daviewales |
/dev/urandom is a 'file' which continuously feeds random numbers to cat. cat then pipes these to hexdump, etc.
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| Jun 17, 2014 at 13:57 | comment | added | Daniel W. | Why is it never ending? I feel stupid, the second time today. | |
| Jun 12, 2014 at 4:20 | comment | added | undergroundmonorail |
/dev/random exists, but it's intended to be more secure than /dev/urandom by only generating numbers if there's available entropy. Once you run out, it stops. /dev/urandom doesn't do that, and won't ever just stop outputting.
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| Jun 11, 2014 at 13:52 | history | edited | daviewales | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 11, 2014 at 13:52 | comment | added | daviewales |
Ah... I tested it on a Mac, and Macs have both random and urandom.
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| Jun 11, 2014 at 9:48 | comment | added | Alice Ryhl | Try using urandom instead. | |
| Jun 11, 2014 at 8:03 | history | answered | daviewales | CC BY-SA 3.0 |