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diff --git a/scripts/core/functions.sh b/scripts/core/functions.sh
index 933a7fff410dad87698272ae558cbbb9589104bb..3a86546be0abcc7a9f1b00b6c4c7e9cb306791a7 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/core/functions.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/functions.sh
@@ -211,26 +211,6 @@ if [ -z "$skip_all" ]; then
     fi
   }
   
-  # buntar is a long needed uncompressing macro that feeds into tar -x.
-  # it takes a list of bz2 file names and extracts their contents into
-  # sequentially numbered directories.
-  function buntar() {
-    index=1
-    for i in $*; do
-      mkdir buntar_$index
-      pushd buntar_$index &>/dev/null
-      file=$i
-      # if the filename has no directory component, we will assume it used to
-      # be above our unzipping directory here.
-      if [ "$(basename $file)" = $file ]; then
-        file=../$file
-      fi
-      bunzip2 -d -c $file | tar -xf -
-      popd &>/dev/null
-      index=$(expr $index + 1)
-    done
-  }
-  
   # trashes the .#blah files that cvs and svn leave behind when finding conflicts.
   # this kind of assumes you've already checked them for any salient facts.
   function clean_cvs_junk() {
@@ -258,6 +238,17 @@ if [ -z "$skip_all" ]; then
     nechung
   }
 
+  # generates a random password where the first parameter is the number of characters
+  # in the password (default 20) and the second parameter specifies whether to use
+  # special characters (1) or not (0).
+  # found function at http://legroom.net/2010/05/06/bash-random-password-generator
+  function random_password()
+  {
+    [ "$2" == "0" ] && CHAR="[:alnum:]" || CHAR="[:graph:]"
+    cat /dev/urandom | tr -cd "$CHAR" | head -c ${1:-32}
+    echo
+  }
+
   function function_sentinel() { return 0; }
   
   if [ ! -z "$SHELL_DEBUG" ]; then echo function definitions end....; fi