Attempting to "cat /dev/urandom" and deleting characters using "tr" randomly results in "write error Broken pipe"
Issue
/dev/urandomis parsed by a script for internal application needs, and returns the below error at times:
[root@server]~$ cat /dev/urandom | head -c 50 | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9~!'
1AS!3miYjUQaSRuZwJVcat: write error: Broken pipe
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
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