OSX Generate Random String

osx-random-string.txt

openssl rand -base64 6

openssl rand -hex 4

openssl rand -base64 8 | md5 | head -c8;echo

openssl rand -base64 6

ping -c 1 yahoo.com |md5 | head -c8; echo

env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc "a-zA-Z0-9-_\$\?" < /dev/urandom | head -c 10

cat /dev/urandom | env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc a-zA-Z0-9 | head -c 16; echo


Generate random password on Mac OS X
Feel free to put this in your ~/.profile:
random(){ cat /dev/urandom | env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc $1 | head -c $2; echo; }
Then use it to generate passwords:
random [:alnum:] 16
Or DNA sequences:
random ACGT 256