[Installer] Create a random string generate `rnd` and publish with goreleaser

[coolaj86]

Add rnd

This is two parts:

1. A program called rnd that spits out a random string (for passwords, tokens, etc)
2. Make installable via webi (could be done by a different person, such as myself)

Currently I have some aliases for creating random strings:

webi aliasman

aliasman alias rnd='xxd -l24 -ps /dev/urandom | xxd -r -ps | base64 | tr -d = | tr + - | tr / _'
aliasman alias xrnd='xxd -l24 -ps /dev/urandom'

It would be trivial to create a cross-platform Go program that spits out a random string.

rnd
2> (196-bit, base64)
> Zys_yZqEySPS5il0l1Vew_y46fQwAqvL

rnd --hex --bits 128
2> (128-bit, hexidecimal)
> 506cc039ef529b631d3d6a6baff6717e

Honestly, I'd prefer it in Rust, but I have yet to see a simple solution for cross compiling to multiple platforms from a Linux host (yes, Windows too, no the user to separately install the visual studio runtime distribution is not acceptable).

Getting this on webi would as simple as copying _example, updating the github releases info, and doing a find and replace on a few file system path names.

There are several Go programs on here which are released with goreleaser which could serve as examples.

Part 2. How to create a webi installer

Skills required

• Basic Command Line knowledge (mkdir, mv, ls, tar, unzip, variables)

Steps

1. Clone and setup the webi packages repo

   git clone git@github.com:webinstall/packages.git
   pushd packages/
   npm install

2. Copy the example template and update with info from Official Releases: https://github.com/___CHANGE/ME___/releases

   rsync -av _example/ CHANGE-ME/

   • [ ] update CHANGE-ME/release.js to use the official repo
   • [ ] Learn how CHANGE-ME unpacks (i.e. as a single file? as a .tar.gz? as a .tar.gz with a folder named CHANGE-ME?)
   • [ ] find and replace to change the name
     • [ ] update CHANGE-ME/install.sh (see bat and jq as examples)
     • [ ] update CHANGE-ME/install.ps1 (see bat and jq as examples)
3. Needs an updated tagline and cheat sheet
   • [ ] update CHANGE-ME/README.md
     • [ ] official URL
     • [ ] tagline
     • [ ] Switch versions
     • [ ] description / summary
     • [ ] General pointers on usage (and perhaps "gotchas")

It's also okay to have multiple people work on part of this (i.e. the Cheat Sheet can be done independently from the install.sh)

[khairnarsaurabh23]

Can i work on this ?

[coolaj86]

@khairnarsaurabh23 Sure. Take a look here: https://github.com/BeyondCodeBootcamp/beyondcodebootcamp/issues/10#issuecomment-882224603

Have you used GoReleaser before?

[khairnarsaurabh23]

No, I haven't used it before. But I'll learn about it, for sure.

[khairnarsaurabh23]

I'm finding it defficult to work on issue with given information. Sir, the link you have given in step 2 goes to nothing. Can you please help me out ? @coolaj86

[coolaj86]

@khairnarsaurabh23 There is no link in step two. You'd have to create it yourself.

What's your experience programming in Go?

[khairnarsaurabh23]

I've no programing experience in Go.

[coolaj86]

Were you planning to write a cross-platform rnd program?

If you just want to add an existing program to Webi, you might try one that already exists, like delta (see https://github.com/webinstall/webi-installers/issues/320) instead.