How to base64 encode /dev/random or /dev/urandom?

Question

cat /dev/urandom is always a fun way to create scrolling characters on your display, but produces too many non-printable characters.

Is there an easy wa

Answer 1

You can do more interesting stuff with BASH's FIFO pipes:

uuencode <(head -c 200 /dev/urandom | base64 | gzip)