To format the password I guess? pwgen sounds like a command that might be able to do that, too, though, but I wouldn't know. Anyway, as far as password creatio

To format the password I guess? pwgen sounds like a command that might be able to do that, too, though, but I wouldn't know. Anyway, as far as password creation goes, here's another alternative based on more standard tools: head -c NN /dev/urandom | base32 # or base64, or md5sum if you so prefer