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Generate random, alphanumeric strings in Bash.
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random-string.sh
#!/bin/bash
RANDSTR="$(cat /dev/urandom | LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | head -c 40)"
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fnkr commented Mar 2, 2017

FreeBSD-compatible:

head -c 60 /dev/urandom | strings -n1 | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | head -c15

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