On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Patrick O'Connor wrote:
> Hi All,
> I was hoping to use the lnux rand() or srand() functions to randomly pick 8
> winners from a number range of 1 to 145 but my efforts have been fruitless
> so far.
> Does anyone have a script that I can use to accomplish this?
with modernish bash:
echo $((1+(RANDOM%145)))
regards,
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