Shell Script Randomizing?

karlp at ourldsfamily.com karlp at ourldsfamily.com
Sun May 14 04:50:31 UTC 2006


On Sat, May 13, 2006 9:06 pm, inode0 said:
> On 5/13/06, karlp at ourldsfamily.com <karlp at ourldsfamily.com> wrote:
>> How can I create a random number in a bash shell script? I've done a bit of
>> 'google-ing' and `man random, srandom, initstate, setstate - random number
>> generator` and can't find any suitable answers.
>
> Does the RANDOM variable in bash suit your purposes? See "man bash"
> and search for RANDOM. If not, perhaps you could tell us a bit more
> about what you require.

Cool. Now I can limit the values by dividing the result and using the integer
value of the result.

Thanks John.

Karl

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