Bash - generate random md5 sum

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In this short article, we would like to show how generate random md5 sum using Bash.

Quick solution (run in the command line):

cat /dev/random | tr -d -c 0-9a-zA-Z | head -c 32

or:

cat /dev/random | head -c 32 | md5sum | head -c 32

Example output:

b80832c98d809b5a75208198c76aa8c7

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