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Latest revision as of 16:52, 11 December 2022
$RANDOM envvar
The RANDOM environment variable returns a random number between 0 and 32767.
You can use modulus to use it to generate a random number within a range.echo $(($RANDOM % 6 + 3)) # pick a number between 3 and 9 (6+3)