Generate Random Names

roman-name-generator.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Generates random roman names plus its gender
# Names copied from https://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/ancient-roman
# First preprocessed by
# awk 'FNR%2 {print $1 " " $2}' roman-names.txt > roman-names.csv
# Surnames copied from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_nomina
CNT=$1
if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
    CNT=5
fi
gawk -v CNT=$CNT \
     'BEGIN {fn = 0; fs = 0; srand(systime());}
      FILENAME=="roman-names.csv"    { f[FNR] = $0; fn++;}
      FILENAME=="roman-surnames.csv" { s[FNR] = $0; sn++;}
      END {
          # print ("Generating with " fn " first names and " sn " surnames.");
          for (i=0; i<CNT; i++)
            printf ("%s %s\n", f[int(rand()*(fn+1))], s[int(rand()*(sn+1))]);
     }' roman-names.csv roman-surnames.csv