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by YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 3236 days ago
To format the password I guess? pwgen sounds like a command that might be able to do that, too, though, but I wouldn't know.

Anyway, as far as password creation goes, here's another alternative based on more standard tools:

   head -c NN /dev/urandom | base32 # or base64, or md5sum if you so prefer