A simple and secure CLI password generator with optional local saving. Don’t worry — we never store your passwords remotely. All generated passwords are saved only on your local machine in a passwords.json file.

• Generate strong random passwords
• Options to exclude numbers or symbols
• Choose password length
• Interactive prompt to save passwords with a custom label
• Saved passwords stored locally in JSON format

Install globally from npm:

npm install -g genpas

Generate a password (default length = 12):

genpas

Generate a password of length 16:

genpas -len=16

Exclude numbers:

genpas -nonum

Exclude symbols:

genpas -nosym

Show help:

genpas -h

If you choose to save a password, it will be written to a local file named passwords.json.

Since genpas is installed globally, the file is saved inside the global npm node_modules folder.

1. First, get the global root path:

npm root -g

This will print something like:

• Windows: C:\Users\LENOVO\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules
• macOS/Linux: /usr/local/lib/node_modules

2. Your saved passwords file will be here:

<npm-root>/genpas/passwords.json

To access your password you can easily do

cat <npm-root>/genpas/passwords.json

Windows (PowerShell)

Open in Notepad:

notepad ((npm root -g) + '\genpas\passwords.json')

Print to console:

Get-Content ((npm root -g) + '\genpas\passwords.json') | Out-String

macOS/Linux

Show contents:

cat "$(npm root -g)/genpas/passwords.json"

Open in editor:

xdg-open "$(npm root -g)/genpas/passwords.json"   # Linux
open "$(npm root -g)/genpas/passwords.json"       # macOS

Saving files inside node_modules isn’t ideal because updates may overwrite them. In a future update, saved passwords will move to your home directory (e.g., ~/.genpas_passwords.json).

Clone the repo and run locally:

git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/genpas.git
cd genpas
npm install
node index.js -len=12

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