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Terminal random password generator
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random_string.sh
# Create a random string of characters that are safe for passwords
## Terminal random password generator
## The "translate characters" (`tr`) command didn't work on my Mac without prepending with `LC_ALL=C`
LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!"#$%&'\''()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~' </dev/urandom | head -c 13 ; echo
## Change the length of the outputed string by adjusting the number at the end of the command: `| head -c 13 ; echo`
## The line of code above will generate a random string that is 13 characters long.
## 16 chars would end with: `| head -c 16 ; echo`
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