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[-] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 10 months ago

I just run

cat /dev/urandom | strings | head -10

Until I find something that slaps.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago

TIL you can generate random character strings like that

[-] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

grep โ€˜[[:alpha:]]{3,16}โ€™?

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