On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:10:00PM -0600, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: >This comes up every month at PLUG (for door prizes) so I thought I'd >ask here. What's an easy to remember way to generate a random >number between 1 and some given number. Language doesn't matter so >long as the code is easy enough for someone to remember the entire >thing and type it up at the drop of a hat.
how about in bash? what, you didn't know bash had a built-in $RANDOM function? echo $[$RANDOM % 100 + 1] -peter /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
