On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 09:20:04AM -0400, dman wrote: > | /dev/random gives random bits. I don't know where it is documented. > | There is a system call random() (see man 3 random). You could write a > | wrapper C program to use it in scripts. > > Naw, just use python :-). > > > #!/usr/bin/env python > > def my_randint() :
<snip> > #!/usr/bin/env python > import random > print random.random() # this gives a float between 0 and 1 > print random.randint( 0 , 10 ) # this gives an int between 0 and 10 > # (the arguments) > Why do you people insist on doing things the hard way? 'echo $RANDOM' in bash works as well as any of these solutions posted here... 'echo $(($RANDOM % $randmax))' where randmax is whatever you want the highest random value to be works, too. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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