---
name: "fst-generate"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sfst"
version: "1.7.0-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/fst-generate"
---

# fst-generate(1)

randomly generate strings of character pairs from a transducer

## NAME

fst-generate - randomly generate strings of character pairs from a transducer

## SYNOPSIS

**fst-generate** *file1 \[ file \[ file \] \]*

## OPTIONS

- **-u**

  print upper layer characters only

- **-l**

  print lower layer characters only

- **-b**

  print upper and lower layer characters as separate strings

- **-h**

  print usage information.

- **-q**

  quiet mode

## DESCRIPTION

*fst-generate* randomly generate sequences of character pairs which are accepted by the transducer.

## BUGS

No bugs are known so far.

## SEE ALSO

fst-parse

## AUTHOR

Helmut Schmid, Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of Stuttgart, Email: schmid@ims.uni-stuttgart.de, This software is available under the GNU Public License.