Generate password and print to stdout?

[Nick Klauer]

Don’t forget about mkpasswd, as that is also able to generate a password to
your liking.
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On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:00 AM Till Schäfer <till2.schaefer at tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

> 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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> > > https://englishbulgaria.net
> > > https://mjanja.ch
> > >
> > >
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