Steve writes:
> ...I can't think of a sane way to do this in plain POSIX sh.
until [ `expr "$PASSWORD" : ".*"` -ge 8 ]
do
PASSWORD=`head -c 100 /dev/urandom | tr -dc '[:alnum:]' | tail -c 8`
done
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin