randcon is able to take a bunch of textlines and create a randomized version of that textlines. randcon is able to save the output in a textfile or into a csv-file which could be easaly imported into a spreadsheet-program as excel or any other whatever the user likes to use.
there a 3 ways to give randcon input: standardinput, a file or automaticly filled up data.
the default datasource is the standardinput. so one has either to type in all the data by hand or use a pipe.
pipe-example (unix): ls -1 | randcon -n 20
pipe-example (win32): dir /o | randcon.exe -n 20
to read lines from a file, one has to define this file with the -o - flag.
inputfile: randcon -i mydata.txt -n 20
and on could create some data with some magicfoo. just use the -m and -M flags and dont forget the -f. the default datastring would be "rand" followed by the given numbers, but one could easaly define an own prefix for the stuff.
example: randcon.exe -m 5 -M 10 -p foo -f
this will create and randomize foo5, foo6, foo7, foo8, foo9 and foo10.
there are also 2 ways to handle the output from randcon. either use the standardoutput or save it in a file. if one wants to use the data in other program which could read .csv-files (comma-separated), then just -t csv and everything will be done for you :). if per default randcon will display the input-data. if one doesnt want to display the inputdata, use the -D / --dont-display-input flag.
exponential|exp|e : exponential distribution from 0-n
csv : comma seperated values
please report any bugs to <gumz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
Mathias Gumz <gumz@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>