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Generate random strings

Problem :

Needed random strings, characters from one liner bash to use on password.

Solution :

< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c8

(take note of the first symbol? less then, it is suppose to be there).

the above command will generate a 8 random character.

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