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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Gen random char then sed replacements Post 302572554 by holyearth on Thursday 10th of November 2011 09:40:08 AM
Old 11-10-2011
Hi Agama,

Thank you for that, but it seems a bit complicated...

This is working atm...

Code:
# Random character generator
randomizer()
{
randomize=`cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc "a-z0-9" | fold -w 6 | head -n 1`
result=$randomize
}

randomizer
echo $result

randomizer
echo $result

But I have to keep calling randomizer in order to make it get a fresh result and also when I call sed with $result, it makes all replacements the same rather than unique $result

Last edited by holyearth; 11-10-2011 at 10:48 AM..
 

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