Hello All, I have a task to change users password and send the email to them on a VPN box.The issues I am having is that some password created has special characters that linux has issues variablizing $newpassword= mkpasswd(-length => 15, -minnum => 4, -minlower => 4, -minupper => 2, -minspecial => 3); So if the above generates a password like

122SDfe$%"'\n,

it throws an error system qq {echo -e "$newpassword\n$newpassword" | passwd $username}; So this would be easier below: 
my @alphanumeric = ('A'..'Z', '*', '!' ,':', '>', 0..9);
my $randpassword = join '', map $alphanumeric[rand @alphanumeric], 0..
+13;
print "$randpassword\n"

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but how do I get it to always have a special character in the generated password? Thank you

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