[ILUG] random number generation

[kevin lyda]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:17:41PM +0100, paul at clubi.ie wrote:
> Also you don't need programming tools:
> 
> dd if=/dev/urandom count=X | od -d
> 
> (ignore the first column of the output - it's obviously not random)

or in bash:

    echo $RANDOM

kevin

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