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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris scripting problem with ksh88 Post 302916500 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 10th of September 2014 09:48:01 AM
Old 09-10-2014
You may need to split up the logic to achieve this, or awk may do this for you. I did something very clumsy many years ago with this:-
Code:
echo "$arg"|awk '{print substr($1,1,1)}'`

Perhaps that can be adjusted to something more suitable. My stab is:-
Code:
((rand=$RANDOM%7))      # Generates number from 0 to 6
((rand=$rand+1))        # To get number from 1 to 7

PASSWD=`echo $MATRICE $rand|awk '{print substr($1,$2,1)}'`

..... but I'm not saying that this is anywhere near the best Smilie




I hope that this helps though,
Robin
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rand(3UCB)					     SunOS/BSD Compatibility Library Functions						rand(3UCB)

NAME
rand, srand - simple random number generator SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/cc [ flag ... ] file ... int rand(); int srand(seed) unsigned seed; DESCRIPTION
rand() uses a multiplicative congruential random number generator with period 2^32 to return successive pseudo-random numbers in the range from 0 to 2^31 -1. srand() can be called at any time to reset the random-number generator to a random starting point. The generator is initially seeded with a value of 1. SEE ALSO
cc(1B), drand48(3C), rand(3C), random(3C) NOTES
Use of these interfaces should be restricted to only applications written on BSD platforms. Use of these interfaces with any of the system libraries or in multi-thread applications is unsupported. The spectral properties of rand() leave a great deal to be desired. drand48(3C) and random(3C) provide much better, though more elaborate, random-number generators. The low bits of the numbers generated are not very random; use the middle bits. In particular the lowest bit alternates between 0 and 1. SunOS 5.11 30 Oct 2007 rand(3UCB)
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