Hi,
> 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....??
Don't know about a shell way to do this, but what about this tiny
C program (compile and link with gcc -c -o r.o && gcc -or r.o)
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
srandomdev();
/* use this on non-BSD systems:
srandom(time (0));
*/
unsigned int r = random () % 99999 +1;
printf ("%d\n", r);
return r;
}
Cheers,
Simon
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