Hello, I am very new to shell scripting. This problem seems quite easy so it should be quite easy (I hope ^^)
I want to get a random file from a directory. this file will be in one subdirectory, and it will contain spaces.
code I have got so far:
N=find ./*/*.jpg | wc -l
((N=RANDOM%N))
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I need to use the $RANDOM command to get a line from a list of lines in a file randomly.
file is
help
go
three
house
film
how do i randomly get one word without looking into the file? (6 Replies)
Hi there folks,
for an exercise for my pupils (you know i am always thinking of them!) i need to randomly re-arrange the words (blank space separated) in a sentence (a line in a textfile). Any inspiration??
Txk so much. (9 Replies)
Hi
I am new to expect. Please if any one can help on my issue its really appreciable. here is my issue:
I want expect script for random passwords and random commands generation.
please can anyone help me?
Many Thanks in advance (0 Replies)
Over the last month or so my CentOS server has been crashing for reasons I do not know. It has been running for over a year with regular yum updates without problems. The load on the server is perfectly normal with CPU usage at 5-6% and RAM usage at less than half of 32GB of RAM (multiple smaller... (3 Replies)
Hi,
Could you please let me know what the following code does, I know that it means generating random numbers, however not sure what is the entire purpose.
R=$(($RANDOM % 2))
delay=$(($RANDOM % 10))
if
then
TEXT='X'
else
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Need to use dd to generate a large file from a sample file of random data. This is because I don't have /dev/urandom.
I create a named pipe then:
dd if=mynamed.fifo do=myfile.fifo bs=1024 count=1024
but when I cat a file to the fifo that's 1024 random bytes:
cat randomfile.txt >... (7 Replies)
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Write a shell script that will take the sum of two random number?
Ex: Random n1 +Random n2 = result
i tries to write it but i had some dufficulties
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strsplit
STRSPLIT(3pub) C Programmer's Manual STRSPLIT(3pub)NAME
strsplit - split string into words
SYNOPSIS
#include <publib.h>
int strsplit(char *src, char **words, int maxw, const char *sep);
DESCRIPTION
strsplit splits the src string into words separated by one or more of the characters in sep (or by whitespace characters, as specified by
isspace(3), if sep is the empty string). Pointers to the words are stored in successive elements in the array pointed to by words. No
more than maxw pointers are stored. The input string is modifed by replacing the separator character following a word with '