How to generate a password with special characters

After Matthias showed me how to generate a password, I wanted to be able to create one with special characters. This way you don’t have to add them later to the password yourself.

I started with pwgen, that you can install in the command line with:

apt-get install pwgen

If you run pwgen, you generate random passwords like:

vuaJ9aes

The passwords are all made up of 8 characters and you get 160 of them at once.

If you want to enforce numbers in the passwords, you type in the command line -n:

pwgen -n

If you want to have at least a capital letter in every password, you type -c:

pwgen -c

If you want to generate completely random passwords, you type -s:

pwgen -s

And if you want to have one with at least one special symbol in every password you choose -y:

pwgen -y

So if you add everything up, if you type:

pwgen -c -n -s -y

you can make your own password from a result like this:

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