Generate Random String with CLI

TIL a few one-liners for generating random strings. date +%s | sha512sum | base64 | head -c 24 ; echo The string is pseudo random and seeded by the current UNIX timestamp. The command should work with most Linux distros and MacOS. If running on Linux a more random command to try uses /dev/urandom and tr . tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 24 ; echo If you need a passphrase you can use the…