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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(3C)						   Standard C Library Functions 						  rand(3C)

NAME
rand, srand, rand_r - simple random-number generator SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h> int rand(void); void srand(unsigned int seed); int rand_r(unsigned int *seed); DESCRIPTION
The rand() function uses a multiplicative congruential random-number generator with period 2^32 that returns successive pseudo-random num- bers in the range of 0 to RAND_MAX (defined in <stdlib.h>). The srand() function uses the argument seed as a seed for a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers to be returned by subsequent calls to rand(). If srand() is then called with the same seed value, the sequence of pseudo-random numbers will be repeated. If rand() is called before any calls to srand() have been made, the same sequence will be generated as when srand() is first called with a seed value of 1. The rand_r() function has the same functionality as rand() except that a pointer to a seed seed must be supplied by the caller. If rand_r() is called with the same initial value for the object pointed to by seed and that object is not modified between successive calls to rand_r(), the same sequence as that produced by calls to rand() will be generated. The rand() and srand() functions provide per-process pseudo-random streams shared by all threads. The same effect can be achieved if all threads call rand_r() with a pointer to the same seed object. The rand_r() function allows a thread to generate a private pseudo-random stream by having the seed object be private to the thread. USAGE
The spectral properties of rand() are limited. The drand48(3C) function provides a better, more elaborate random-number generator. When compiling multithreaded applications, the _REENTRANT flag must be defined on the compile line. This flag should be used only in mul- tithreaded applications. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
drand48(3C), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.11 19 May 2004 rand(3C)
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