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N-character password generation out of /dev/urandom
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password_gen_dev_urandom
# alphanumeric
</dev/urandom tr -dc [:alnum:] | head -c10
# all printable characters, excluding whitespace
</dev/urandom tr -dc [:graph:] | head -c10
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