Bill, Your approach produced the following results on my Mac OS X. Notice the two blank lines and the negative number result.
2!:0 'cat /dev/urandom|od -N4 -An -i'
818045955
2!:0 'cat /dev/urandom|od -N4 -An -i'
-1293144445
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