A tool that I wrote last year to generate random passwords, and have since found unbelievably useful. Save it in a shell script and use at will. It takes one optional parameter, which is the password length (it defaults to 12 chars), and produces a typable password without problematic characters (such as quotes) that some badly-configured websites choke on.
#!/bin/bash if [[ -n $1 ]]; then len=$1 else len=12 fi < /dev/urandom tr -dc \ _\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\<\>,.:\;+\-=\[\]\\/\?\|\~A-Za-z0-9 \ | head -c$len echo
