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The following command generates a 20 character password from all visible ASCII characters (94) except '"|\ (90), which are problematic in some contexts, like embedding in (unversioned) source code, for approximately 128 bits of entropy (9020 = 1.22e+39):

$ < /dev/urandom tr -dc [:graph:] | tr -d \|\\\'\\\\\" | head -c20 | xsel --clipboard
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