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Why can't tr read from /dev/urandom on OSX?
A colleague suggested creating a random key via the following command:
tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)-+= < /dev/urandom | head -c 32 | xargs
It gave me the error:
tr: Illegal byte ...