Where is rand(1)?

[Mike Spencer]

My stock install of Slack 15 has a manpage for rand(1) AKA
openssl-rand(1) but no executables under those names.

Where is rand(1)?




(Yes, yes, I know about /dev/random and /dev/urandom.)

[Rich]

Post by Mike Spencer
My stock install of Slack 15 has a manpage for rand(1) AKA
openssl-rand(1) but no executables under those names.
Where is rand(1)?

It does not exist as a stand alone executable under the name 'rand'.
As you can see from the 'rand' man page, 'rand' is a subcommand of the
openssl command:

SYNOPSIS
openssl rand [-help] [-out file] [-rand file...] [-writerand file]
[-base64] [-hex] num

[Mike Spencer]

Post by Rich

Post by Mike Spencer
My stock install of Slack 15 has a manpage for rand(1) AKA
openssl-rand(1) but no executables under those names.
Where is rand(1)?

It does not exist as a stand alone executable under the name 'rand'.
As you can see from the 'rand' man page, 'rand' is a subcommand of the
SYNOPSIS
openssl rand [-help] [-out file] [-rand file...] [-writerand file]
[-base64] [-hex] num

Just so. TYVM. Yes, I RTFM and didn't get it. I must be even slower
than usual.

Tnx,