#!/usr/bin/perl use IO::Handle; use IO::File; use POSIX; $want= 1; $filename= "/usr/share/dict/words"; @randfile= ("/dev/urandom", "/dev/random"); sub fail ($) { die "random-word: $_[0]\n"; } open D, ">/dev/null" or fail("open /dev/null: $!"); while ($ARGV[0] =~ m/^\-/) { $_= shift @ARGV; if (m/^\-\-?$/) { last; } elsif (m/^\-n(\d+)$/) { $want= $1; } elsif (m/^\-f/ && length > 2) { $filename= $'; } elsif (m/^\-r/ && length > 2) { @randfile= ($'); } elsif (m/^\-D$/) { open D, ">&STDERR" or fail("dup stderr for debug: $!"); } else { fail("unknown option \`$_'"); } } sub debug ($) { print D "random-word: debug: $_[0]\n" or fail("write debug: $!"); } for $randfile (@randfile) { $r= new IO::File "$randfile", 'r'; debug("open $randfile ".($r ? "ok" : "failed $!")); last if $r; $!==&ENOENT or fail("cannot open $randfile: $!"); } $r or fail("could not open any random device: $!\n (tried @randfile)"); $r->autoflush(0); $w= new IO::File $filename, 'r'; $w or fail("cannot open $filename: $!"); debug("open $filename ok"); @words= <$w>; $w->error and fail("cannot read $filename: $!"); debug("read $filename ok"); while (@out < $want) { $!=0; read $r,$rbytes,4; length $rbytes==4 or fail("cannot read $randfile: $!"); $wordno= unpack 'L',$rbytes; $wordno &= ~0x80000000; $wordno %= @words; $_= $words[$wordno]; chomp; debug("picked $wordno \`$_'"); next unless m/^([a-z][-a-z]+)$/; push @out, $1; debug("good, now ".scalar @out); } debug("enough"); print join(' ',@out), "\n" or fail("cannot write output: $!");