Random dictionary words

[bjs144]

Does anybody know if there is a Random real world word Generator?

I am currently using $RANDOM but get complaints from users saying they cannot remeber the string easily when they need to reuse it later.

I am not worried if there is not an esy solution for this as I will try to find another way of doing it.

Many Thanks

[Stefan Farrelly]

You can download some source to do this here;

http://www.multicians.org/thvv/gpw.html

[Shannon Petry]

I used the code suggested as a base for myself a long time ago to make an extended version of this code.
It incorporates stdargs to generate random case and random number replacement for s=5, i=1, b=8, and o=0 as well as using a bit more checking.

This code works find on linux, but I have not had time to port to HP-UX.

Regards,
Shannon

[Shannon Petry]

Looks like my attatchment does not work for some reason. If it does not upload this time, email me at spetry@axieminc.com and I'll reply back with the code.

Shannon

[bjs144]

Thanks for your replies everyone.

I did not make it very clear on what I wanted.

I would ideally like Random Dictionary words.

Whilst the Java Password website / code is very good, it does not generate real dictionary words

Ideally I would like real dictionary words, like aardvark, abacus.....zulu, zygote etc etc....

I am thinking along the lines of a plain text file with the dictionary in it, and then a script randomly plucks a real word out that way.

I have searched widely accross the web and cannot find a plain text dictionary file and have failed.

I do not want to spend alot of time on this so I am not worried if I cannot get what I want.

Many thanks, and apologies for not detailing my requests better.

[Ben Sachs_1]

I'd imagine it might be easy to take a dictionary file such as the one I attached, and write a script to randomly pick a word from it?

-Ben

[Ben Sachs_1]

Attachment didn't fully upload.... try this one.

-Ben

[bjs144]

Many thanks Ben for taking the time to post a reply and a plain text file for the Dictionary.

I have spent a bit of time removing the slashes from the end of some lines which I did not want, and then created a csv file with the line numbers in the first field.

Although the origional dictionary file is only A-G with some 22,000 entries I have replicated part of this file to bump up the number to just over 32,000 lines so $RANDOM is definately going to get one line of text.

After all this, just a simple one liner will generate the random dictionary word, this is

grep "$RANDOM" dictionary.csv |cut -d "," -f 2

This will generate a Random dictionary word

Although a A-Z dictionary file would help, I have got what I wanted so I do not care!!

Attached is a copy of the csv file format of the dictionary. A-G,(Approx 22,000 lines) then A-C repeated to get number above 32,000

Many thanks for all you guys that spent time trying to help me out on this issue.

Ben

[bjs144]

ahhhhhh

Thanks HP, it appears that my attachment to this board does not like my file because it is larger than 17,236 lines long.

I'll post the file to some free space on the web for public access.

Send url later

Ben

[Alex21995]

Well, you can download some sources from the given link. Don't worry, if you face any problem. I was facing some source code problem over there, but after some time I understand about #Random words.

http://www.multicians.org/thvv/gpw.html

Also from http://www.tricknowledge.com/

I hope, from this link you can solve your problem!

[Bill Hassell]

I needed an easy 8 character password or login generator.
I found a large random (English) word file, then trimmed it down to about 1100 words, each word between 3 and 6 characters and then pad the word in front or back with random numbers. I then wrote a function to echo back a random word from the file and random numbers to fill to 8 characters total.

Here's the code:

function RandomID
{
# Usage: RandomID [login | pw]
#
# Return a random word and random numbers.
# The words come from a file with over 1,100 words 3 to 6 characters
# Distribution is :
#
#    QTY LEN
#    252  3
#    698  4
#    664  5
#    626  6

# This function echoes either word+number
# or a number+word totaling 8 characters
#
# examples: ticket37 47urgent mega3790 95675two

# If "login" is the param, the echoed text is word+nums
# Otherwise, text is nums+word

# Return a random line number from the dictionary
# $RANDOM returns 0-32767
# Use this number mod $WORDCNT to find a random
#   line number in the RandomWords file.

  RANDOMWORDFILE=/etc/RandomWords

  WORDCNT=$(cat $RANDOMWORDFILE | wc -l)
  RNDLINE=$(($RANDOM % $WORDCNT))
  ID=$(sed -n "$RNDLINE p" $RANDOMWORDFILE)

  IDLEN=${#ID}
  IDNUMS=$((8-$IDLEN))
  NINES=$(echo "999999" | cut -c 1-$IDNUMS)
  typeset -Z$IDNUMS IDNUMS=$(($RANDOM % $NINES + 1))
  [[ "$1" = "login" ]] && echo "$ID$IDNUMS" || echo "$IDNUMS$ID"
  return

}

This will generate millions of different passwords or login IDs. Each call to the function echoes a  new string.

Since the Comunity Forums won't allow a text file to be attached, here are the 1100 words:

Copy this list into the file: /etc/RandomWords, one word per line.

afford  advise  advice  adult   admit   admire  adds    added   add     active  action  act     across  accuse  accept  accent  about   able
among   always  also    alone   almost  all     alive   alert   air     aid     agreed  agree   ago     agenda  age     again   after   afraid
arm     arise   argue   area    april   apply   apple   appear  apiece  apart   any     answer  ankle   animal  angry   angle   anger   and
ball    bags    bag     bad     back    aware   awaken  avoid   autumn  aunt    august  attack  atom    assist  ask     art     arrive  around
begin   before  beef    bed     become  beat    beard   bear    beach   bay     bath    basket  basic   based   base    bank    banana  bamboo
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