Theo Buehler <t...@theobuehler.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 06:15:43PM +0100, Rachel Roch wrote: > > According to the docs : > > > > > A random value (within the legal range) may be obtained by using the > > > ‘~’ character in a field. > > The random numbers are drawn once and then repeated regularly. This > behavior has always bothered me but never enough to spend the time > needed to fix it (it's not immediately obvious how to do it). A > workaround is to use a > > sleep $((RANDOM \% 512)) && run_whatever > > construct. The number to the right of the modulo should be a power of 2 > to avoid modulo bias.
Any solution would need to be careful, so that a operation doesn't run multiple times in an hour. Each column should be '0 + random % range', but multiple columns contain ~, it gets weird.
