I am trying to find a way to generate random numbers within a shell script.
Does Solaris have a utility that will generate random numbers?
Thanks in advance.
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In my server migration requirement, I need to compare if one file on old server is exactly the same as the corresponding file on the new server.
For diff and comm, the inputs need to be sorted. But I do not want to disturb the content of the file and need to find byte-to-byte match.
Please... (4 Replies)
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I need to create a table with random sentences. I need lines that are upto 1000 characters in lenght. I need a random sentence generator that will create sentences and output it to a text file. The sentences should be of lenght varying from 1 to 1000.
Does anyone know how this can be... (7 Replies)
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I need a script that will generate a set of random strings in sequence, with the ability to predetermine the length, quantity, and alphabet of individual string, and to use the outputs of earlier strings in the sequence to define the parameters of later strings. For examples, I might want... (5 Replies)
I want to develop a script of the following form:
#!/bin/bash
# Function 'listen' opens a data stream
# which stores all incoming bytes in
# a buffer, preparing them to be
# grabbed by a following function
# which appears at random
# intervals during the execution of
# the script
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A very simple crude sinewave generator.
The file required is generated inside the code, is linear interpolated and requires /dev/audio to work. Ensure you have this device, if not the download oss-compat from your OS's repository...
It lasts for about 8 seconds before exiting and saves a... (5 Replies)
Hello
I created 3 files by:
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=1000000 of=./testfile1
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=5000000 of=./testfile2
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=10000000 of=./testfile3
Now I want to know how to make a change in a specific byte and/or line of theses files? (2 Replies)
Dear UNIX Friends,
I was wondering if there is a random RGB color generator or any function in any unix platforms.
Please share your ideas.
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I am using the below to random generate a password but I need to have 2 numeric characters and 6 alphabetic chars
head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c 8 ; echo ''
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Any Help folks - Can the output be passed onto a sed command to... (9 Replies)