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Date:      Sun, 6 Oct 2002 22:50:46 +0100 (BST)
From:      Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To:        Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: /dev/urandom is randomly cool
Message-ID:  <200210062150.WAA04881@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Peter Leftwich's message of Sun, 6 Oct 2002 17:27:08 -0400 (EDT)

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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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