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From: danabu@scorpio.uucp (Daniel N. Abushanab)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,alt.unix.wizards,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Packed C-structures in Interactive UNIX
Summary: Shell programming question
Keywords: Alignment, Padding, initialization.
Message-ID: <9728@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 13 Dec 90 18:44:15 GMT
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Reply-To: danabu@scorpio.UUCP (Daniel N. Abushanab)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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I'm very new to shell programming, so maybe this is a stupid question,
but I'll ask away anyway.  I'm trying to write a script that will look
in a directory, see how many files are in there, then randomly select
one to be displayed as a background picture.  Currently I'm using the
time as a selection criterion, where a different picture is displayed
depending on what time it is when the request is made.  Not very
elegant, but like I said, I'm new at this.  Any help will be greatly
appreciated.  Thanks.

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Daniel N. Abushanab		          University of California, Berkeley
E-mail:  danabu@scorpio.berkeley.edu      Mechanical Engineering Department
phone:  (415) 642-5109