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 (Base64 encoding, with
53 as specified in RFC3548, as an attempt to achieve the same goal but
54 inconveniently using up all the good separator characters),
56 (Base32 encoding, as described in RFC2938),
58 (plain hexadecimal encoding), or
60 (raw binary output, not printable).
62 .BI "\-l, \-\-line=" length
63 Breaks textual output into lines of at most
65 characters, and does all encoding in a strictly conforming way. By
66 default, the textual output is not line-broken, and strange terminator
67 characters are not printed.
70 The output length is bits, not bytes. This doesn't affect the default
75 Mark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>