Last Updated: March 07, 2016
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Random string generator, Bash

#bash
 
cat /dev/random | tr -dc "[:alpha:]" | head -c 8

If you hit an Illegal byte sequence error try...

cat /dev/random | LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc "[:alpha:]" | head -c 8
#bash

Written by Chris Lowder

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smathy

Found I needed LC_ALL on bash v4.2 in OSX Terminal

over 1 year ago ·
JayWheeler

Thank you very much - just what I was looking for. Was headed this direction, but this made the trip much nicer!

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