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@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ # 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: |