How to get a random string of 32 hexadecimal digits through command line?

Question

I\'d like to put together a command that will print out a string of 32 hexadecimal digits. I\'ve got a Python script that works:

python -c \'import random ; prin         


        

Answer 1

If you are looking for a single command and have openssl installed, see below. Generate random 16 bytes (32 hex symbols) and encode in hex (also -base64 is supported).

openssl rand -hex 16