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Date:      Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:35:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   /dev/urandom is randomly cool
Message-ID:  <20021005223308.D2062-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com>

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I was sorting through my /usr/X11R6/bin/startx text-file and noticed:

mcookie=`dd if=/dev/urandom bs=16 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -e \\"%08x\\"`

I started playing around with `cat /dev/urandom` and `head -1 /dev/urandom`
so my question is... How can I use the head -1 method and change the output
into just [A-Za-z0-9] and no spaces or punctuation?  And specify length?

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Peter Leftwich
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