Re: [FWP] YAGOLF: password generation

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.thayer.dartmouth.edu>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:07:28AM -0300, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> This probably was requested before, but I'd
> like to see the shortest cmdline to generate
> a password of 8 random alphanumeric characters.
> 
> The one I've got is 60 chars:
> 
>     echo|perl -pe "@a=(A..Z,a..z,0..9);eval's##\$a[rand@a]#;'x8"

FYI, that doesn't work in tcsh, although it works in bash.

This is 50 characters:

      perl -le'print map+(A..Z,a..z,0..9)[rand 62],0..7'


Ronald

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