linux random password generator - repeat n times

Question

dd if=/dev/urandom count=200 bs=1 2>/dev/null|tr "\n" " "|sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]//g'|cut -c-16

How do I repeat it set number of times?

Answer 1

Try this:

for i in `seq 10` ; do <your command here> ; done

it will repeat <your command here> 10 times.

Answer 2

If the point is to learn shell programming, see cYrus's answer.

If the point is to generate a password, many distributions ship with pwgen.