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Generate a Random HTML Anchor. Useful for linking to specific paragraphs in a HTML or markdown page
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aid.txt
set aid to do shell script "/bin/bash -s <<'EOF'
randid=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-z0-9' | fold -w 6 | head -n 1)
echo \"<a id='\"${randid}\"' href='\"#${randid}\"'>¶</a>\"
EOF"
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