I'm not sure if this qualifies as "utilities" or "scripting." You did invite submissions from the USS community. And, in that community, those concepts can get mixed. At any rate, here is my effort using USS
od -d /dev/urandom 2>/dev/null | head -8000 | cut -d" " -f2- | sed "s/ *//g" | cut -c1-4 That gives me 8000 random 4 digit numbers. It doesn't quite hit the mark on two counts. First, I do get a lot of duplicates. And second, I get numbers up to 9999. Solving either of those problems would definitely require shell scripting. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
