sorry the mail got stuck locally. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------- Find out more about this and other Linux India mailing lists at http://lists.linux-india.org/
