random password generator for OSX

random_pw

#! /bin/bash

##
#  spit out random password. default length of 32 characters
#  usage:
#    ./random_pw <pw_length>
##

COUNT=$1
DEFAULT_COUNT=32

if [[ $1 = 0 || $1 -eq '' ]]; then
	COUNT=$DEFAULT_COUNT
fi

head -c $COUNT /dev/random | uuencode -m - | tail -n 2 | head -n 1 | head -c $COUNT

echo "" # output newline