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Bash script to generate secure random password

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Usage:

Save this script to gen-password.sh file
Make it executable:
```
chmod +x ./gen-password.sh
```
[OPTIONAL] Place it somewhere in your $PATH, e.g.
```
sudo mv ./gen-password.sh /usr/local/bin/
```
Run it. Optional argument is the length of the password:
```
gen-password.sh 32
```

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gen-password.sh

	#!/bin/bash

	LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9' </dev/urandom \| head -c ${1:-16}

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