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Create a long random password on the Linux command line
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#!/bin/bash
TMPFILE=`/usr/bin/env mktemp`
dd count=1 bs=10M if=/dev/urandom of=$TMPFILE > /dev/null 2>&1 && md5sum $TMPFILE | awk '{print $1 }'
rm -f $TMPFILE
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