Random Number generator

[Peter Day_2]

Does any know how I can generate a random number. Other than the awk'{print rand()}' which only produces a random number from 0 - 1, and I haven't found a way to get that into a variable.

Any help would be very welcome.

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

"echo $RANDOM" is probably your easiest bet.

but if you did want to get your awk thing into a variable you'd go

myrandom=`awk'{print rand()}'`

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi,

Check:

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=KRNG11I

cat /dev/random | while read VAR1 VAR2 etc
do

etc...


done

HTH,

Gideon

[Peter Day_2]

Thanks Mark.

You didn't work for IBM did you ??.

Pete

[Mark Grant]

Actually peter I did :)

[Steven E. Protter]

http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=KRNG11I

SEP

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

What OS? HP-UX 11i has /dev/random, it is available for 11.00 from http://freshmeat.net/projects/hpux11-random/

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn