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randomsn() {
managed_python3 -c "import string; from random import randint, sample; print('VM' + ''.join(sample((string.ascii_lowercase + string.digits),10)))"
}
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smashism commented Sep 5, 2018

Add this to your bash profile to make an alias for randomsn that quickly generates a random serial number of VM+a string of 10 letters and numbers. Great for making well-formed serial numbers for VMs for testing.

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could also do

cat /dev/random | LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc "[:alpha:]" | head -c 10

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smashism commented Feb 1, 2022

roll your own organizational python3
https://github.com/macadmins/python

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