On 18 Dec 2016, at 6:40, Antoine Beaupré wrote:

I like the idea of using /dev/urandom directly, but piping it into
base64 is a terrible idea.

[…]
pwgen -ys, half the time, generates a password i can't copy-paste by
simply double-clicking on it (because of symbols like [>;.]).

I’ve also had minor issues with characters like backslash, apostrophe, double-quote, and backtick.

As for BSD’s base64, I am on macOS with the man page for base64 stating February 8, 2011 (Mac OS X 10.7) and the default is to encode input, no required argument.
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