How to generate a random integer with specific range(for example, from 1 to 1000)?
Also, how to convert a floating point number into a integer? (2 Replies)
I want to be able to generate a random number within a korn shell script..
Preferably i would like to be able to state how many digits should be in this random number... ie 4 digits or 5 digits etc
Any ideas? (2 Replies)
I saw this formula to generate random number between two specified values in shell script.the following.
$(((RANDOM%(max-min+divisibleBy))/divisibleBy*divisibleBy+min))
Give a example in book.
Generate random number between 6 and 30.like this.
$(((RANDOM%30/3+1)*3))
But I have a... (1 Reply)
Dear all,
I have a question. I have a txt file say 4000 rows X 1800 Column. I 'd like to creat a new column as the first column which is a column of random numbers (n=4000)
thanks a lot!
Lin (2 Replies)
Hi,
Do anybody knows how to use awk or any command to random print out 1000 number which start from range 1 to 150000?
I know that "rand" in awk can do similar random selection.
But I have no idea how to write a code that can random pick 1000 number from range 1 to 150000 :confused:
... (1 Reply)
Hi there I am trying to generate a random number between 40 and 70 using the shell here is my code so far and it keeps going above 70. all help much appreciated!
comp=$(( RANDOM%70+40 ))
echo $comp (4 Replies)
Hi,
Is anybody experience generate a pair of random number by using awk command?
I wanna to generate a pair of random number (range from 1 to 4124) and repeats it 416 times.
Desired output
2 326
123 1256
341 14
3245 645
.
.
.
I did write the below command:
awk... (5 Replies)
Hi all...
Apologies for any typos, etc...
This took a while but it didn't beat me...
Although there are many methods of generating random numbers in a POSIX shell this uses integer maths and a simple C source to create an executable to get epoch to microseconds accuracy if it is needed. I take... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: wisecracker
8 Replies
LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bup-random
bup-random(1) General Commands Manual bup-random(1)NAME
bup-random - generate a stream of random output
SYNOPSIS
bup random [-S seed] [-fv]
DESCRIPTION
bup random produces a stream of pseudorandom output bytes to stdout. Note: the bytes are not generated using a cryptographic algorithm and
should never be used for security.
Note that the stream of random bytes will be identical every time bup random is run, unless you provide a different seed value. This is
intentional: the purpose of this program is to be able to run repeatable tests on large amounts of data, so we want identical data every
time.
bup random generates about 240 megabytes per second on a modern test system (Intel Core2), which is faster than you could achieve by read-
ing data from most disks. Thus, it can be helpful when running microbenchmarks.
OPTIONS
the number of bytes of data to generate.
Can be used with the suffices k, M, or G to indicate kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes, respectively.
-S, --seed=seed
use the given value to seed the pseudorandom number generator. The generated output stream will be identical for every stream
seeded with the same value. The default seed is 1. A seed value of 0 is equivalent to 1.
-f, --force
generate output even if stdout is a tty. (Generating random data to a tty is generally considered ill-advised, but you can do if
you really want.)
-v, --verbose
print a progress message showing the number of bytes that has been output so far.
EXAMPLES
$ bup random 1k | sha1sum
2108c55d0a2687c8dacf9192677c58437a55db71 -
$ bup random -S1 1k | sha1sum
2108c55d0a2687c8dacf9192677c58437a55db71 -
$ bup random -S2 1k | sha1sum
f71acb90e135d98dad7efc136e8d2cc30573e71a -
$ time bup random 1G >/dev/null
Random: 1024 Mbytes, done.
real 0m4.261s
user 0m4.048s
sys 0m0.172s
$ bup random 1G | bup split -t --bench
Random: 1024 Mbytes, done.
bup: 1048576.00kbytes in 18.59 secs = 56417.78 kbytes/sec
1092599b9c7b2909652ef1e6edac0796bfbfc573
BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite.
AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>.
Bup unknown-bup-random(1)