UNIX Coding School

Shell Script: Random Number

By jasonslater

To get a random number at a shell script in Unix (I tried this on AIX 5 and it worked) use $RANDOM. echo $RANDOM 26558 echo $RANDOM 16737 echo $RANDOM 11669.


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