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Generate a random UUID in bash and looped 30k times to generate more random bytes
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
# Generate a pseudo UUID | |
uuid() | |
{ | |
local N B C='89ab' | |
for (( N=0; N < 16; ++N )) | |
do | |
B=$(( $RANDOM%256 )) | |
case $N in | |
6) | |
printf '4%x' $(( B%16 )) | |
;; | |
8) | |
printf '%c%x' ${C:$RANDOM%${#C}:1} $(( B%16 )) | |
;; | |
3 | 5 | 7 | 9) | |
printf '%02x-' $B | |
;; | |
*) | |
printf '%02x' $B | |
;; | |
esac | |
done | |
echo | |
} | |
for i in {1..30000}; | |
do | |
uuid | |
done |
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