Re: [FWP] YAGOLF: password generation

[Julien Quint <julien.quint@imag.fr>]

> 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"

How about:

	echo ,,,,,,,,|perl -ple's/\W/chr rand(123)/gewhile/\W/'
	echo ,,,,,,,,|perl -pe's/\W/chr rand+123/gewhile/\W/'

The two solutions are 56 and 54 chars long respectively, but the second one 
causes a warning and has no newline at the end. There should be a way to do 
better I am sure.

Julien

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