On 03/29/2012 05:16 PM, pete wrote: > > Maybe i should correct that slightly i need to generate .htpasswd > file with 150 user password pairs .. > > Pete . > > If you have a file with usernames then something like this may work for you. ufile=/tmp/xxx pfile=/tmp/yyy result=/tmp/upfile N=$(wc -l $userfile | awk '{print $1}' pwgen -C1 -N $N > $pfile paste $ufile $pfile > $result gene