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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool
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> > >  tr -cd a-zA-Z0-9 < /dev/urandom | dd bs=$len count=1 2>/dev/null

> It didn't work.  My shell is tcsh so I tried:
> tr -cd a-zA-Z0-9 < /dev/urandom | dd bs=8 count=1 >& /dev/null

">&" redirects stderr *and* stdout.

-- Richard

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