sorry the mail got stuck locally.

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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:55:54 +0530 (IST)
From: sreangsu acharyya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LIH] Random number in shell script

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Christopher Vasanth wrote:

> Can anyone show me how to generate a random number in a shell script?

Bash has a environment variable called RANDOM which returns a different no
everytime it is refered, but i dont know of its statistical
characteristic, have to look up the man page

sreangsu

p.s.


Vasanth can you shorten your To: field a bit. Its rather superfluous isnt
it

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