Re: [FWP] YAGOLF: password generation

[Steve Lane <sml@zfx.com>]

Michael G Schwern wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> Assuming we're not worrying about little things like warnings...
> 
> perl -le'print map{(A..Z,a..z,0..9)[rand 62]}1..8'
> 
> What is that, 50?

i think this is still the shortest solution that matches
the original requirements.  a par:

  perl -le'$_.=chr rand 123until/[^\W_]{8}/;print$&'

and a bogey:

  perl -le's//chr rand 123/euntil/[^\W_]{8}/;print$&'
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Steve Lane <sml@zfx.com>

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