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by baccredited 922 days ago
"pw" a simple perl script that prints a random password. default length is 16 chars but if I do "pw 8" it will return an 8 char password

I use it all the time, at least a few times a week.

I wrote it because the secure passwords generated by iOS and various password managers are overkill for most purposes and extremely hard to type out by hand to an airgapped destination

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Heh... I have several variants on this. My most-recent version is basically the diametric opposite of yours, make the least-readable passwords possible.

https://github.com/007/dotfiles/blob/439ba7ff1d1f6dc01c4b792...

Love it! I like the bash implementation for bare minimum on the dependencies