Installing the command-line executable

Assuming you have Rust/Cargo installed, run this command in a terminal:

cargo install genpwd

It will make the genpwd command available in your PATH if you've allowed the PATH to be modified when installing Rust. cargo uninstall genpwd uninstalls.

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genpwd - a Rust command line program

This program generates a randomized password from character classes.
The minmum length of generated passwords is 10.
Character classes are [a-z], [A-Z], [0-9] and special sign !"$%&/?\(){}[] *~#'<>|,;.:-_.

Information

Version: 0.2.0
Documentation: generated documentation
Supported OS: Linux, Windows
Contact: "Olaf Brozio" <[email protected]>

Rust version

Minimum version is 1.54; see: clap, rand

Dependencies

clap - Minimum version is 2.34.0
rand - Minimum Version is 0.8.4

Usage

genpwd [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
   -h, --help                  Prints help information
   -V, --version               Prints version information

OPTIONS:
   -l, --length         Minimal length of password \[minimum: 10\] \[default: 12\]
   -o, --occurrence     Minimal occurrence of each character class \[default: 2\]

Examples

>genpwd
9hL]0z.G&r-O

>genpwd -o 4
z16N\6'8NkvyXK(<

>genpwd -l 20
5X,qN~f02143c-2q6>]1

>genpwd -o 3 -l 14
*;4!7c0KHLdc:i

License

genpwd is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0).
See the LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT files in this repository for more information.

Changes for version 0.2.0

README.md / documentation
Help message uses parentheses instead of sqare brackets.
Version of dependency clap is "^2.34.0".
Version of dependency rand "^0.8.4".