This script uses the menemonic_wordlist from the mnemonic encoding project to generate a set of word pairs

random_mnemonic.zsh

#!/usr/bin/env zsh
#
# This script uses the menemonic_wordlist from the mnemonic encoding project to generate a set of word pairs
# I use them for software release naming conventions and I like choices
# You can get it for yourself with curl
# curl -Lo menmonic_wordlist.txt http://web.archive.org/web/20091003023412/http://tothink.com/mnemonic/wordlist.txt
#
#
MNEMONIC_FILE="$HOME/Documents/mnemonic_wordlist.txt"
function random_word {
    WORDLINE=$(( $(($RANDOM % $(wc -l $MNEMONIC_FILE|awk '{print $1}')))  + 1))
    WORDCOL=$(( $(($RANDOM % 6)) + 1 ))
    WORD=$(head -$WORDLINE $MNEMONIC_FILE | tail -1 | awk -v word=$WORDCOL  '{print $word }')
    echo -n $WORD
}
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