Re: Random Sigs?

[William Park]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:09:56PM -0400, Bob Bell wrote:
> >     ii=`echo $RANDOM`; echo ${ii#${ii%[0-9]}}
> 
> Why not use bash to compute the remainder?  For instance, if you have
> 13 signature files, compute 0-12 (pseudo-)randomly with:
>     $((RANDOM%13))

Yes, I forgot that Bash can do modulus.

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