Get Random Site Names in Bash

Generate a random filename in unix shell

Assuming you are on a linux, the following should work:

cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c 32

This is only pseudo-random if your system runs low on entropy, but is (on linux) guaranteed to terminate. If you require genuinely random data, cat /dev/random instead of /dev/urandom. This change will make your code block until enough entropy is available to produce truly random output, so it might slow down your code. For most uses, the output of /dev/urandom is sufficiently random.

If you on OS X or another BSD, you need to modify it to the following:

cat /dev/urandom | env LC_CTYPE=C tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c 32

Simple shell script that creates a dir with a random name

try just:

#!/bin/bash
DATAOGGI=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")
RANDOM_STRING=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1)
mkdir "${DATAOGGI}${RANDOM_STRING}"

apart from fact that it is not necessary in this example echo -n AFAIK has very inconsistent behavior and it is advised to use printf instead

Create a random name for the complete script

declare your own variable first:

myrandom=$RANDOM
for i in $(ls -latr sample_*.csv); do
    paste -d, $i >> out_${myrandom}.csv;
done
sed 's/^|$/\x27/g' out_${myrandom}.csv | paste -d, > merged_t${myrandom}.csv

How can I select random files from a directory in bash?

Here's a script that uses GNU sort's random option:

ls |sort -R |tail -$N |while read file; do
    # Something involving $file, or you can leave
    # off the while to just get the filenames
done

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