2 .TH gorp 1 "9 October 2003" "Straylight/Edgeware"
4 gorp \- write a short random string
16 random bits (must be a multiple of 8, default is 128) and writes the
17 resulting string to standard output.
19 The following options are recognized.
22 Prints a help message to standard output and exits successfully.
25 Prints the program's version number to standard output and exits
29 Prints a really short usage summary to standard output and exits
32 .BI "\-f, \-\-format=" format
33 Prints the random string using the chosen output
37 (standard Base64 encoding, as described in RFC2045; this is the default),
39 (Base64 encoding, with
43 so the output is suitable for use as a filename),
45 (plain hexadecimal encoding), or
47 (raw binary output, not printable).
49 .BI "\-l, \-\-line=" length
50 Breaks textual output into lines of at most
52 characters, and does all encoding in a strictly conforming way. By
53 default, the textual output is not line-broken, and strange terminator
54 characters are not printed.
57 The output length is bits, not bytes. This doesn't affect the default
62 Mark Wooding <mdw@nsict.org>