cli-name-generator

generates random usernames

Dependencies

• you will need xsel for the interactive mode
• you will need some Perl modules
• currently unix runs under unix system

Install

• this will download the census data + wiktionary

namengen.pl -d 1

Syntax

Usage: namegen.pl <# of names>
-m 	select mode
-d 	download the database
-i 	interactive mode (array is possible, separate with spaces)
-r 	randomly select a mode

Example

> namegen -r 5
  reclinem
  daniel-laroche
  Lillie-Nakagawa
  Melissa.Owens
  Dorothy-Nichols

Interactive mode

>namegen -i 5
[0]  Dale Daniel
[1]  Catherine Hussain
[2]  Claude Hyler
[3]  Paul Pennington
[4]  Jammie Dallas

Enter result to copy to clipboard [0-9|q|n]:

Options:

n    generates new data
0-9  enter a valid number
q    quit

Modes

Mode	Example
0	First Last
1	First.Last
2	first.last
3	First-Last
4	first-last
5	FirstLast
6	firstlast
7	Word
8	word
9	Word.Word
10	word.word
11	adjnoun
12	adjfirst

To be continued.

Aliases

I use the following aliases for quick access of the most important functions: name generation and username generation.

alias namegen="usergen -m 0"
alias usergen="usergen -m '11 12'"

History

This is a total rewrite of https://github.com/carterpage/census-name-generator