From 04c877dd3312b56e7e5e0da1cce18bdc4349ab97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michiel Scholten <michiel@aquariusoft.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:12:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Little script to generate a (pseudo)random string of hex
 characters

---
 bin/randomhex | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 bin/randomhex

diff --git a/bin/randomhex b/bin/randomhex
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7d9d38e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/randomhex
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+if [ -e $1 ]; then
+  NUMBERCHARS=42
+else
+  NUMBERCHARS=$1
+fi
+
+cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd 'a-f0-9' | head -c $NUMBERCHARS ; echo