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From: nelson@berlioz.nsc.com (Taed Nelson)
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Subject: Re: random numbers in awk?
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Date: 24 Apr 91 17:35:02 GMT
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>  The standard awk has no built-in way of getting a random number.
>
>  However, the FSF version of awk, gawk, has a built-in rand() function that

The current version (1986) of AWK has rand() as well.  On the SunOS, it has
been renamed to be NAWK (New AWK).