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generate random password (works on Mac OS X)

Prepending env LC_CTYPE=C fixes a problem with bad bytes in /dev/urandom on Mac OS X
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env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc "a-zA-Z0-9-_\$\?" < /dev/urandom | head -c 10

aerickson · 2011-02-22 17:09:44 8
Generate random password on Mac OS X

Feel free to put this in your ~/.profile: random(){ cat /dev/urandom | env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc $1 | head -c $2; echo; } Then use it to generate passwords: random [:alnum:] 16 Or DNA sequences: random ACGT 256
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cat /dev/urandom | env LC_CTYPE=C tr -dc a-zA-Z0-9 | head -c 16; echo

yakovlev · 2014-02-05 15:04:07 7
command shell generate random strong password

shell generate random strong password Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
NXuc2VjRcOhW7zyQDBhH
```
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len=20; tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ < /dev/urandom | head -c ${len} | xargs

aysadk · 2019-04-16 20:20:46 39
Perl One Liner to Generate a Random IP Address
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perl -e 'printf "00:16:3E:%02X:%02X:%02X\n", rand 0xFF, rand 0xFF, rand 0xFF'

Gular · 2012-07-02 09:59:43 6
generate random mac-address using md5sum + sed

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```
$ date | md5sum | sed -r 's/(..){3}/\1:/g;s/\s+-$//'
78:3a:dc:2a:9c:df
```
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date | md5sum | sed -r 's/(..){3}/\1:/g;s/\s+-$//'

acavagni · 2019-07-13 10:39:21 39
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. Show Sample Output
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```
Copied to clipboard: speedily702nixed
Copied to clipboard: rarities648toasting
Copied to clipboard: flunkies754inflect
Copied to clipboard: bogey202calves
^C
```
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while true; do curl -s http://sensiblepassword.com/?harder=1 | tail -n 15 | head -n 1 | sed 's;<br/>;;' | cut -c 5- | cb; sleep 1; done

supervacuo · 2012-01-30 20:52:14 45
Generate random password, human readable with no special characters.
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false; while [ $? != 0 ]; do apg -c /dev/urandom -n1 -E oOlL10 | egrep '^[[:alnum:]]+$'; done

evolix · 2012-04-24 08:30:28 5
generate an initrd file

This commands compresses the "tmp" directory into an initrd file.
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cd tmp ; find . |cpio -o -H newc| gzip > ../initrd.gz

akiuni · 2014-09-24 14:07:54 9
Generate all possible combinations between aaa 999

tr ' ' '\n' isn't needed, it's just there to make the output prettier. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
...
8Q0
8Q1
8Q2
8Q3
8Q4
8Q5
8Q6
8Q7
8Q8
8Q9
8Ra
8Rb
8Rc
8Rd
8Re
8Rf
8Rg
8Rh
8Ri
8Rj
8Rk
8Rl
8Rm
8Rn
8Ro
8Rp
...
```
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echo {{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}} | tr ' ' '\n'

freja · 2015-06-25 15:24:29 9
Simply generate a password for userPassword in ldap

Permit to generate a password for userPassword in ldap. Use ?slappasswd -g? to generate a random passowrd. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
# slappasswd
New password:
Re-enter new password:
{SSHA}Xkcd21CV1TaCQXZRnop184vAvel6XV+9
```
-1

slpappasswd

evolix · 2011-10-13 14:46:03 5

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Shortcut to find files with ease.

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Take screenshots with imagemagick

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Perl oneliner to print access rights in octal format

This prints file access rights in octal - useful when "stat" is unavailable.

Find Duplicate Files (based on MD5 hash)

Calculates md5 sum of files. sort (required for uniq to work). uniq based on only the hash. use cut ro remove the hash from the result.

sort the output of the 'du' command by largest first, using human readable output.

In this case I'm just grabbing the next level of subdirectories (and same level regular files) with the --max-depth=1 flag. leaving out that flag will just give you finer resolution. Note that you have to use the -h switch with both 'du' and with 'sort.'

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clone an USB stick using dd + see its process

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Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

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