Bash script to generate secure random password

README.md

Usage:

1. Save this script to gen-password.sh file

2. Make it executable:

   chmod +x ./gen-password.sh
   

3. [OPTIONAL] Place it somewhere in your $PATH, e.g.

   sudo mv ./gen-password.sh /usr/local/bin/
   

4. Run it. Optional argument is the length of the password:

   gen-password.sh 32
   

gen-password.sh

#!/bin/bash

LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9' </dev/urandom | head -c ${1:-16}