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[-] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 year ago

I just run

cat /dev/urandom | strings | head -10

Until I find something that slaps.

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 14 points 1 year ago

Are you checking out the competition Elon?

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

TIL you can generate random character strings like that

There's room for improvement, as strings in this configuration will output arbitrary lengths, so it's very likely to result in 10 lines with 1 char, or one line with a length of 100+

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

grep โ€˜[[:alpha:]]{3,16}โ€™?

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