Watchword

par gaztea

Command-Line Password Generator in TypeScript.

Installation

npm

npm install -g watchword

Releases

To install through via github releases, you'll need to install the dependencies. To do it, access the downloaded folder and run:

npm install

Finally, to install the package, run:

sudo npm install -g ./

Quick Start

You can use the default watchword command without any additional argument. By running it, you'll get a 15 digits password with, at least, 5 numbers and 5 special characters.

watchword

You can also add arguments to create a custom password:

watchword -l 30 -n 10 -s 10

To get the basic instructions, run:

watchword --help

All Options:

-V, --version           output the version number
-l, --length, <value>   set the password length (default: 15)
-n, --numbers <value>   set the minimum amount of numbers in the password (default: 5)
-s, --special <value>   set the minimum amount of special characters in the password (default: 5)
-h, --help              display help for command

Clipboard

We use clipboard-sys to auto copy the generated password to your clipboard. It's cross plataform and supports:

• MacOS
• Windows
• Linux (xclip supporting systems)

Issues

You can ask for new features, improvements and bug fixes in our issues tab

You can also check the status of our current issues in our kanban board.