A random string generator in a bash script isn't respecting the number of given characters

Question

I am trying to build a random character generator in a bash script on osx 10.8.5 . The goal is to generate random character strings for a script generating salts for the wor

Answer 1

Another way of doing this if you fancy one-liners:

perl -le 'print map { ("a".."z","A".."Z",0..9,",",";",".",":","-","_","#","*","+","~","!","§","\$","%","&","(",")","=","?","{","}","[","]","|","<",">") [rand 87] } 1..63'

or, as you probably won't want a new line at end:

perl -e 'print map { ("a".."z","A".."Z",0..9,",",";",".",":","-","_","#","*","+","~","!","§","\$","%","&","(",")","=","?","{","}","[","]","|","<",">") [rand 87] } 1..63'