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Shrimp

Simplistic password generator writen in Rust.

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/carmesim/shrimp

# Change directory into it:
cd shrimp

# Build it with Cargo
cargo run --release

Example usage

$ shrimp --length=20
Password: 7TS@utsKi*4peY5bIX7C
Quality: Excellent

Available flags

USAGE:
shrimp [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
-h, --help         Prints help information
-L, --lowercase    Enable lowercase letters.
-n, --numbers      Enable whole numbers like 1, 2, or 8.
-S, --silence      Suppress all output bar the generated password.
-s, --symbols      Enable symbols like #, $ or @.
-u, --uppercase    Enable uppercase letters.
-V, --version      Prints version information
-v, --verbose      Activates verbose output. Can be set multiple times for greater info.

OPTIONS:
-l, --length <LENGTH>    Sets generated password's length. If not set, 15 will be used.
-p, --pool <POOL>        Sets the pool of characters from which the password can be made of.

If no pool is set or if none of -Lnsu are set, a standard charset of upper and lowercase characters, numbers and special symbols will be used.