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Re: One-line password generator



On 22/08/17 10:04, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> I have the following line in my Bash init file:
> 
> “alias gen-password="head -c 16 /dev/urandom | base64 | head -c 22 && echo"”
> 
> This generates a password with just above 128 bits of entropy. You may
> find it useful.

A slight simplification:

alias gen-password="head -c 16 /dev/urandom | base64 | cut -c -22"

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