I want to be able to generate random strings from the windows command prompt. This is so that i can create a temp file with that random name so that i am sure that the temp file absolutely does not exist.
Is this possible?
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I want to be able to generate random strings from the windows command prompt. This is so that i can create a temp file with that random name so that i am sure that the temp file absolutely does not exist.
Is this possible?
This isn’t possible via the normal command prompt. However, you could write a script to accomplish the task.
If you were using powershell this woul be simple:
generates (for Windows 7)