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February 19, 2013 15:22
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Needed to generate a few random-looking strings for a spec document. For OSX (pbcopy).
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| # Generate 7-char string and copy to pasteboard (e.g. "ff757eb" and "41d0a9a") | |
| head -c 10 /dev/urandom | shasum | head -c 7 | pbcopy | |
| # Use date as input | |
| date | shasum | head -c 7 | pbcopy |
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