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by keybored 827 days ago
I use a 1000-line word list, head(1), shuf(1) and then tr(1) to join the lines.
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I've just been using

    shuf -n 5 /usr/share/dict/words
and then manually typing them in, optionally adding any special characters or whatever the particular site requires. Changing 5 as needed, of course.
One of the neatest bonuses that you get from using pgen instead is that it can also tell you the amount of entropy of passphrases that each combination of settings (wordlist, number of words) will produce. This alone should ideally be reason enough to adopt pgen :)