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Created September 5, 2012 17:01
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Easy command line random hash generator for Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.
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random_hash.sh
#!/bin/sh
head -n 4096 /dev/urandom | openssl sha1
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soniah commented Nov 16, 2023

Even fancier:

% head -n 4096 /dev/urandom | openssl sha1 | awk '{print $2}' | cut -c1-6
a87a72

In your ~/.zshrc:

alias rsha='head -n 4096 /dev/urandom | openssl sha1 | awk "{print \$2}" | cut -c1-6'

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