Jakob Unterwurzacher wrote:
in bash:
#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq 1 $((RANDOM%100))`; do /bin/true; done
But you should make sure that $RANDOM assumes different values after a
reboot (same for perl's rand(100), which is likely more advanced and
less likely to suffer from that problem).
Jakob
this can be done by prefixing your 'for' line with:
RANDOM=$(($(date +%s) % 32768))
this seeds the random number generator based on the number of seconds
since 1/1/70, so is likely to avoid repeats.
Dominic
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