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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago 
tr -d '\n' < /dev/random | head -c256 | LANG=C sed 's/[^\x21-\x7E]//g' | head -c3

If you can figure out how to make sed stop after it outputs a specific number of characters, the head -c256 can be dropped.