The only use for this is to save wear and tear on my keyboard when I need to come up with some sort of random string to use for a user password. Note this is the password that I would give them, not the encrypted password that one might find in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. It just looks like gibberish. I'd simply call it a finger exercise to see if I could do it all in one line (its possible with commandline parameters to feed into the crypt() function. I just decided to use a string out of localtime().
#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdat)=localtime;
print "Password: " . reverse(substr(crypt((($sec+$min+$hour+$mday+$mon
++$year+$wday+$yday+$isdat) * $< / $)),rand($
$)),2,9)) . "\n";

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