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How did you pick the name of your child/children? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just run

cat /dev/urandom | strings | head -10

Until I find something that slaps.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Are you checking out the competition Elon?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

TIL you can generate random character strings like that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's room for improvement, as strings in this configuration will output arbitrary lengths, so it's very likely to result in 10 lines with 1 char, or one line with a length of 100+

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

grep ‘[[:alpha:]]{3,16}’?