#! perl -slw use strict; sub random_string { my $n = shift; my $result = ''; my @letters = ('A'..'Z', 'a'..'z'); my @letternum = ('A'..'Z', 'a'..'z', '0'..'9'); $result .= $letters[ rand $#letters ]; $result .= join "", map { $letternum[ rand $#letternum ] } 1..$n; return $result; } my %h; printf("\r$_"), $h{ random_string( $ARGV[0] ) }++ and die "Dup after $_ reps" for 1 .. 1e6;