#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $numargs = scalar @ARGV; if ($numargs == 0) { print "Clare's Random Password Generator\n"; print "Usage: pwdgen template [number]\n"; print "where template is a string composed of the following characters\n"; print "\tl\tlower case letter\n\tL\tupper case letter\n\tc\tlower case consonant\n\tC\tupper case consonant\n"; print "\tl\tlower case vowel\n\tL\tupper case vowel\n\tn\tnumber\n\tp\tpunctuation mark\n\ta\tany character\n"; print "Any character in the template which is not one of those above will be placed in the password at the same position\n"; print "number refers to the number of passwords to generate - this defaults to 10.\n"; exit(0); } my $num; my $template = $ARGV[0]; if (defined $ARGV[1]) { if ($ARGV[1] =~ /^\d+$/) { $num = $ARGV[1]; } } else { $num = 10; } my @l = split '', 'qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm'; my @n = split '', '0123456789'; my @p = split '', ',.?<>;:@/!"%^&*()-+=_'; my @L = split '', 'QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM'; my @c = split '', 'qwrtypsdfghjklzxcvbnm'; my @C = split '', 'QWRTYPSDFGHJKLZXCVBNM'; my @v = split '', 'aeiou'; my @V = split '', 'AEIOU'; my @a = split '', 'qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnmQWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM,.?<>;:@/!"%^&*()-+=_0123456789'; my @t = split '', $template; my $len = scalar @t; my $newpass = ""; for (my $c = 0; $c < $num; $c++) { for (my $x = 0; $x < $len ; $x ++) { if ($t[$x] eq "l") { $newpass .= $l[rand @l]; next;} if ($t[$x] eq "L") { $newpass .= $L[rand @L]; next;} if ($t[$x] eq "c") { $newpass .= $c[rand @c]; next;} if ($t[$x] eq "C") { $newpass .= $C[rand @C]; next;} if ($t[$x] eq "v") { $newpass .= $v[rand @v]; next;} if ($t[$x] eq "V") { $newpass .= $V[rand @V]; next;} if ($t[$x] eq "n") { $newpass .= $n[rand @n]; next;} if ($t[$x] eq "p") { $newpass .= $p[rand @p]; next;} if ($t[$x] eq "a") { $newpass .= $a[rand @a]; next;} $newpass .= $t[$x]; } print "$newpass\n"; $newpass = ""; }