ts-pwgen

Command-Line Password Generator in TypeScript

Installation

npm install -g ts-pwgen

Good to know

• It has a default password length of 30 characters
• It uses lowercase/uppercase letters, numbers and special characters when you don't pass any arguments saying otherwise
• It uses crypto.randomBytes() instead of Math.random().
• You should try the --verbose flag to see how long it would take a supercomputer (10^12 pw/sec) to crack your generated password
• Use -k if you don't like the copy-to-clipboard feature

Demo

Usage

pwgen --help

Usage: pwgen [--length 10] [--parts 3] [--delimiter "-"] [--count 3] [-aAns]

Options:
  -p, --parts      Define how many parts there should be
  -l, --length     Define the length of a part
  -d, --delimiter  Define the delimiter to use if there are multiple parts
  -c, --count      Define how many passwords to generate           [Standard: 1]
  -a, --ascii      Use lowercase letters                               [boolean]
  -A, --ASCII      Use uppercase letters                               [boolean]
  -n, --numbers    Use numbers                                         [boolean]
  -s, --special    Use special characters                              [boolean]
  -x, --latin1     Use latin1 characters                               [boolean]
  -v, --verbose    Verbose output, see how long it would take a supercomputer to
                   crack your generated password(s)  [boolean] [Standard: false]
  -k               Do not copy the password to the clipboard
                                                     [boolean] [Standard: false]
  --version        Display current version                             [boolean]
  -h, --help       Show help                                           [boolean]

Examples

Custom length

pwgen -l 16 or pwgen --length 16 or pwgen --length=16

-TI)!9~GmQm~a=jj

Parts with delimiter

pwgen --parts=3 --length=5 --delimiter="-"

1TX)C-rivp<-MWvZ5

ProTip: Use parts for WiFi-friendly passwords

pwgen -p 4 -l 5 -an

jhnxp-geehp-rtz2n-3m4vt

The delimiter defaults to -.

See how long it would take a supercomputer to crack your password

pwgen -l 16 -v

Password length:       16
Different characters:  91
Possible combinations: 2.211374397284394e+31

Required time to crack (10^12 passwords/s)
              Seconds: 11056871986421970000
                Years: 350566645098.98
  Age of the universe: 25.71

a*aO)~}xv|4s+Z4*

Password successfully copied to clipboard!

Create multiple passwords

pwgen -c 5

@T:6Z8}5G"dIENbab^qvh;^}##LY{F
3Qy7@`&Ujh;aQL0dMz%@M(IfswdLfa
Sg5O+@L<:Ni1E>k<F>{,XvS|{Y|^W|
ZKf/]e-unOP8YWPv4W@eYe*yL6{lk}
N^)@rFD+1F-G!v%UZcxeV)FzIMfn]]

Use lowercase letters only

pwgen -a

jpgthoyjmwumnoiroqynbhywoxhjnb

Use uppercase letters only

pwgen -A

AUAYYZJXWMIKMPJGHVQSPKUGPUFTCU

Use numbers only

pwgen -n

647681199479680747570268980919

Use special characters only

pwgen -s

=<}(<>}/,_.*@:|<*++"=)^;^:|)_+

Use latin1 characters only

pwgen -x

»°ÃÑîÍí¢ÆñÓò¾ÅÚïñ°ÕÔÏúñ¼Ï´¦îÓê

Use letters and numbers (combine charsets)

pwgen -aAn

APlngye5IiXTu0z7NETffgS67bOX48

Development

Unit tests

npm test

Build from TypeScript source

npm run build