Generate password and print to stdout?

[Till Schäfer]

Hi, 
there is a standard unix tool for this purpose: pwgen

Regards, 
Till

On Dienstag, 14. November 2017 13:51:26 CET b3yond wrote:
> pass can't do this, as it can't use files as output which are outside
> .password-store.
> 
> you can use this command instead for a 32 length alphanumeric passphrase:
> 
> cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1
> 
> I hope this helps :)
> 
> b3yond
> 
> 
> On 14.11.2017 13:21, Alan Orth wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm wondering how to make pass print a generated password to stdout.
> > Sometimes I need to generate a password that I don't want or need to
> > store. It would be nice if I could just use pass generate for that.
> > Currently it seems that the "pass-name" argument is mandatory.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Alan Orth
> > alan.orth at gmail.com <mailto:alan.orth at gmail.com>
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> >
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