Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

jot 4 | awk '{ print "wc -l /usr/share/dict/words | awk '"'"'{ print \"echo $[ $RANDOM * $RANDOM % \" $1 \"]\" }'"'"' | bash | awk '"'"'{ print \"sed -n \" $1 \"p /usr/share/dict/words\" }'"'"' | bash" }' | bash | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/$/\n/'

So I use OSX and don't have the shuf command. This is what I could come up with. This command assumes /usr/share/dict/words does not surpass 137,817,948 lines and line selection is NOT uniformly random.

Sample Output

rackettwiseheartedgellytutoressn

By: fathwad

2011-08-16 00:26:56

awk bash sed tr tr xkcd

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Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

4 random words are better than one obfuscated word http://xkcd.com/936/ Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
DolbycuspidspromulgatedAmundsen
```
23

shuf -n4 /usr/share/dict/words | tr -d '\n'

Strawp · 2011-08-10 13:04:39 24
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

The improvement of this command over Strawp's original alternative is that you can specify the size of the words, in this particular case words between 3 and 5 character's long. It also excludes words that contain apostrophes, if you'd rather keep those words simply substitue [^'] for . Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
potty Aspen seedy curt
```
2

echo $(grep "^[^']\{3,5\}$" /usr/share/dict/words|shuf -n4)

j_melis · 2011-08-23 21:15:18 7
Alternative way to generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password usig sed

This is what I came up to generate XKCD #936 style four-word password. Since first letter of every word is capitalized it looks a bit more readable to my eyes. Also strips single quotes. And yes - regex is a bit of a kludge, but that's the bes i could think of. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
EyestrainOctogenariansCatechisingDepression
```
1

shuf -n4 /usr/share/dict/words | sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g;s/'\''//g;s/\b$.$/\u\1/g;s/ //g'

vasti · 2011-08-11 19:49:21 4
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

This does the same thing that the command 'j_melis' submitted, but does it a lot quicker. That command takes 43 seconds to complete on my system, while the command I submitted takes 6 seconds. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
nukes
waken
Liszt
vain
```
0

shuf /usr/share/dict/words |grep "^[^']\{3,5\}$" |head -n4

menachem · 2011-08-24 03:43:55 4
Generate an XKCD #936 style 4 word password

Before running, do: curl -sO http://world.std.com/%7Ereinhold/diceware.wordlist.asc Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
snapcodonmarshstink
```
0

perl -F'\s+' -anE 'push @w,$F[1];END{$r.=splice @w,rand @w,1 for(1..4);say $r}' diceware.wordlist.asc

zedlopez · 2011-08-24 18:50:16 5

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