Unix shell script kit v12 adds new random character functions, motivated by the recent Hacker News post about shell random generation. The new functions use /d

Unix shell script kit v12 adds new random character functions, motivated by the recent Hacker News post about shell random generation. The new functions use /dev/urandom, are POSIX compatible, and provide various character class helpers to generate :alpha:, :digit:, :graph:, etc., and with a length parameter. Example: random_char 'ABCD' 8 => DACABBCA Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35326648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35326648