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Quickly generate a safe password. Allows you to (optionally) pass a length.
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| # Easily generate a safe password. Defaults to 16 characters | |
| # | |
| # author Jonah Dahlquist | |
| # license CC0 | |
| genpass() { | |
| local l=$1 | |
| [ "$l" == "" ] && l=16 | |
| tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ < /dev/urandom | head -c ${l} | xargs | |
| } |
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