blog | ~bdeshi

password clipping

i have a dedicated clipboard manager and password manager, yet i keep losing generated passphrases.

it goes like this:

• i'd made a simple password generator long ago:

  alias genpw="gpg --gen-random 1 16 | gpg --enarmor | sed -n 4p"

• i select its output and paste into whatever password field.

• but then i forget to save it somewhere else, and immediately lose it by selecting some other text somewhere.

• i thought of some overcomplicated system where primary selections are continously appended to a (gpg encrypted) file, but meanwhile i'm making do by just appending this to that passphrase generator pipeline:

  | xclip -i -sel c

• it's still pasteable, but with ctrl+v instead of middle-click.

• yes there are far better solutions for all of this.

Tags: shell, linux, xorg