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Old 03-01-2007, 10:54 PM   #1
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Generate a random number from a bourne shell script

How do I generate a random number between 500 and 5,000 from a bourne shell script?
 
Old 03-01-2007, 11:00 PM   #2
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http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/randomv...#RANDOMBETWEENYou may need to adjust as this is a Bash script.
 
Old 03-01-2007, 11:01 PM   #3
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Here is a site that talks about bourne scripting. At the bottom, there is an example that generates a random number between 0 and 99.

http://xray.bmc.uu.se/~remco/program...ng_course.html
 
  


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