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authorThomas Voss <mail@thomasvoss.com> 2023-08-27 15:55:48 +0300
committerThomas Voss <mail@thomasvoss.com> 2023-08-27 15:55:48 +0300
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# mkpass
-`mkpass` is a CLI utility to generate passwords from the command\-line. All
+`mkpass` is a CLI utility to generate passwords from the command-line. All
random characters are generated by `/dev/urandom`.
By default passwords are 64 characters long and may contain any printable ASCII
character. If you would like to specify the password length, you can use the
-`-l` command\-line option. If you would like to specify the set of characters
-to use in the password, you can provide a set of characters or a range in the
-same form as `tr(1)`.
+`-l` command-line option. If you would like to specify the set of characters to
+use in the password, you can provide a set of characters or a range in the same
+form as `tr(1)`.
For example to generate a 40 character long password containing only the numbers
0–9 and the uppercase-characters A–F: