Tuesday, 7 June 2016

Shell Script to Generate Random Numbers

Using 'shuf' you can generate random numbers between a given range.

Here is an exmaple showing how to generate randon number between the range 1 to 20 -

#] for x in `seq 1 10`
#] do
#] ran=`shuf -i 1-20 -n 1`
#] echo $ran
#] done


Sample Output -

18
15
17
11
20
2
11
14
15
3