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One-liner to generate alphanumeric password in Ruby (1.8.2+)
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genpass.sh
ruby -e "require 'openssl'; puts (0...24).map { c = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'; i = OpenSSL::Random.random_bytes(1).unpack('C').first % c.length; c[i..i] }.join"
# Or alternatively to avoid homoglyphs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph)
# ruby -e "require 'openssl'; puts (0...24).map { c = '3479AEFHJLNQRTYabdefghijnqrty'; i = OpenSSL::Random.random_bytes(1).unpack('C').first % c.length; c[i..i] }.join"
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