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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: random numbers in a C shell script?
Message-ID: <153@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 8 May 89 09:44:14 GMT
References: <1501@cmx.npac.syr.edu> <3138@uokmax.UUCP>
Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
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In article <3138@uokmax.UUCP> randy@uokmax.UUCP (Longshot) writes:
>In article <1501@cmx.npac.syr.edu> gefuchs@logiclab.cis.syr.edu (Gill E. Fuchs) writes:
>-how would one go about getting a random numba in a C shell script?
>
>No way that I could find. I wrote this tiny prg to allow me to do it:

4.3BSD comes with a really useful program called `jot' in the user contributed
software under `tools'.

	jot -r 3 10 99

will give 3 random numbers between 10 and 99 inclusive

	jot -c - a z 1

prints the alphabet.  I use it all the time in e.g.

	foreach i ( `jot -c - a z 1` )

Rob
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