makenames.pl   [plain text]

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Copyright (C) 2011, 2012  Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
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# $Id: makenames.pl,v 1.3 2011/09/02 21:15:35 each Exp $
use strict;

die "Usage: makenames.pl <num> [<len>]" if (@ARGV == 0 || @ARGV > 2);
my $len = 10;
$len = @ARGV[1] if (@ARGV == 2);

my @chars = split("", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789");

srand; 
for (my $i = 0; $i < @ARGV[0]; $i++) {
        my $name = "";
        for (my $j = 0; $j < $len; $j++) {
                my $r = rand 35;
                $name .= $chars[$r];
        }
        print "$name" . ".example\n";
}