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re: "asset tag and call if lost sticker". I think it's also a great idea to not have your user and hostname set to be "johnbigbucks@bestinvestconsulting" but s

re: "asset tag and call if lost sticker". I think it's also a great idea to not have your user and hostname set to be "johnbigbucks@bestinvestconsulting" but something more generic or randomized. I use something like this to randomize my hostname. awk 'length==6' /usr/share/dict/words | grep -v '[^[:alpha:]]' | shuf -n 1 | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'

philsnow 12y ago
because i'm somehow compelled to golf such things (like unnecessary use of cat): egrep '^[[:alpha:]]{6}$' /usr/share/dict/words | shuf -n 1 | tr A-Z a-z
- heyalexej 12y ago
  Yep, that's elegant. It's so easy to write bad bash scripts that I do it all the time. So much to learn on my end.
  - philsnow 12y ago
    Thanks for your post btw, I did not know about this tool `shuf`. My equivalent involves `sort -r | head -1`