Nice solution! This could be improved furthur,
Given that my ASCII file isn't terminated by a new line,
echo -n "DirticaVduURPjDwfEkzjTAmPbDRelukkuraPhedgdnrKSXlIJgMrKayBqPTTFdngQXoCxJZMImwMrhFidkixjLSAwnqkhdYgWlkbwjEEtwBdZaJhakSbHQYVBknit" > passwd
Then my soln would be
head -qc +57 passwd |...