randcrypt is command line tool that can generate a cryptic strong random string and copy it to clipboard. Can be useful for creating an identifier, slug, salt, PIN code, fixture, etc. It is a wrapper around clipboardy and crypto-random-string packages.
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To use it in terminal, we install it globally:
npm install -g randcrypt # or using yarn: yarn global add randcryptTo use randcrypt we must supply with minimally one argument ie length, optionallly type argument:
rc [length] [type]for example: rc 32 base64.
Here are the possible types that we can use:
- hex,
- base64,
- url-safe,
- numeric,
- distinguishable,
- ascii-printable,
- alphanumeric.
For simple help about randcrypt, run randcrypt without any arguments:
rc