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Note that you also add a newline at the end. To fix that, and optimize by replacing fold -w 10 | head -n 1 with head -c10

elomage
– elomage

2021-04-07 07:17:26 +00:00
Commented Apr 7, 2021 at 7:17
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I've been using this for years however in macOS Big Sur it breaks with "Input error"

hyperknot
– hyperknot

2021-04-23 00:19:03 +00:00
Commented Apr 23, 2021 at 0:19
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add LC_ALL as suggested in another answer: cat /dev/urandom | LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 10 | head -n 1

Ludovic Kuty
– Ludovic Kuty

2023-08-18 08:19:17 +00:00
Commented Aug 18, 2023 at 8:19

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