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Commands tagged generator

Terminal - Commands tagged generator - 3 results

2012-01-30 20:52:14

User: supervacuo

Functions: cut head sed sleep tail

Tags: copy paste website password clipboard generator generate

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Generate random sensible passwords, and copy them to the clipboard

Use the excellent sensiblepasswords.com to a generate random (yet easy-to-remember) password every second, and copy it to the clipboard. Useful for generating a list of passwords and pasting them into a spreadsheet.

This script uses "madebynathan"'s "cb" function (http://madebynathan.com/2011/10/04/a-nicer-way-to-use-xclip/); you could also replace "cb" with

xclip -selection c

Remove "while true; do" and "; done" to generate and copy only 1 password.

for i in {21..79};do echo -e "\x$i";done | tr " " "\n" | shuf | tr -d "\n"

2011-04-14 01:43:40

User: hunterm

Functions: echo tr

Tags: echo password tr for shuf for loop generator alpha symbols digit

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Random Password Generator (uses all chars, no repeated chars)

Generates a password using symbols, alpha, and digits. No repeating chars.

for domain in $(pwgen -1A0B 6 10); do echo -ne "$domain.com "; if [ -z "$(whois -H $domain.com | grep -o 'No match for')" ]; then echo -ne "Not "; fi; echo "Available for register"; done

2011-01-26 01:10:52

User: mariocesar

Functions: echo

Tags: whois domain name 2.0 generator

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A "Web 2.0" domain name generator and look for register availability

You would need pwgen installed first, on ubuntu you can get it by apt-get

sudo apt-get install pwgen