Talk:Random Strong Password Generator

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Original code (/usr/bin/randpw) and changelog

#!/bin/bash
if [[ ! $1 =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
  echo "Invalid argument. Argument must be a positive number.";echo
  echo "Usage: randpw [n]";echo
  logger -i ERROR: no positive integer provided, no password generated -t randpw
else
  < /dev/urandom tr -dc '_A-Z-a-z-0-9!?@+[](){}"|_~<>*%^&#+=/\.$:;,-' | head -c${1:-$1};echo;
  exit 0
fi
exit 0

Changelog

  • Nov 7. 2016 - Removed debug ARG variable, added / to the list of characters.