Ted Unangst wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011, Han Boetes wrote: > > I have this nice password generator which I use on my work, mostly > > linux based: > > > > < /dev/urandom tr -dc "[:graph:]" | head -c 12; echo > > > > Of course this isn't portable so I rewrote it to: > > > > < /dev/arandom tr -dc "[:graph:]" | iconv -c -t ASCII | dd count=1 bs=12 > > 2> /dev/null; echo > > > > Now you may look at it and wonder what's the 'iconv -c -t ASCII |' > > is doing in there. If you remove it you'll notice weird characters > > slipping through. > > Actually, I don't. Do you have an example of a weird character being > let through?
Here it is: I redirected the output -- without iconv -- to "file" a few times and then ran: uuencode -o file2 file output And added it here: [demime removed a uuencoded section named output which was 5 lines] # Han
