On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:15:17AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: > I need to run a script, perhaps using FBSD's 'rand' or 'random' command (or > any other) that will generate one single 5-digit number 'at random' between > 00001-99999 > > Anyone have thoughts on how to do this....??
perl -e 'printf "%0.5d\n", int(rand(99999) + 1);'
Assuming that range is inclusive.
Cheers,
Matthew
Nb. Don't use srand() explicitly --- perl will auto-seed the PRNG from
/dev/urandom if left to it's own devices.
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