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Hack 85. How to generate random number in bash shell

by Ramesh

Use the $RANDOM bash built-in function to generate random number between 0 – 32767 as shown below.

$ echo $RANDOM
22543

$ echo $RANDOM
25387

$ echo $RANDOM
647
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