Thanks to Perderabo and Crashburn for this idea...
we need to add 1 so that we genrate line numbers between 1 to $nlines and not 0 to $nlines -1
or this should also work... here I'm ensuring by dividing with 32768 that the "random" number generated will fall within the no of lines that file contains.
On hp-ux 10, 11 we have man ksh giving
0 <= $RANDOM <= 32767
you can see the range for RANDOM by referring "man ksh" for your implementation...
My problem is as follow and i hope you can help:
I currently have this function:
stored_word()
{
number=$RANDOM
let "number %= 21"
case $number in
0 ) echo "energy" ;; 1 ) echo "touch" ;;
2 ) echo "climbing" ;; 3 ) echo "declare" ;;
4 ) echo "marry" ;; 5 ) echo "relax" ... (8 Replies)
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)
I have a text file with hundreds of lines, i wish to run a script and reads a random line to pass it to another command line such as:
for line in `cat file |grep random line`; do echo $line |mail my@example.com ; done
thank you (6 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)
Hi experts,
My csv file looks like this
U;cake;michael;temp;;;;
U;bread;john;temp;;;;
U;cocktails;sarah;temp;;;;
I'd like to change the value fo 2nd column to cf+random number , which will look maybe something like this
U;cf20187;michael;temp;;;;
U;cf8926;john;temp;;;;... (7 Replies)
I have a file that needs to be parsed into multiple files every time there line contains a number 1. the problem i face is the lines are random and the file size is random. an example is that on line 4, 65, 187, 202 & 209 are number 1's so there has to be file breaks between all those to create 4... (6 Replies)
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)
Hello
I created 3 files by:
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=1000000 of=./testfile1
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=5000000 of=./testfile2
dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=10000000 of=./testfile3
Now I want to know how to make a change in a specific byte and/or line of theses files? (2 Replies)
I have a file contains thousands of lines. I want to insert n random numbers into each line at
specific position. Like this:
0 22……
1 33……
……
……
I want to insert 3 random numbers from position 2 to 4 into each line.
0 325 22……
1 685 33……
……
……
Please use CODE tags when... (8 Replies)
shcomp(1) User Commands shcomp(1)NAME
shcomp - compile a ksh93 shell script
SYNOPSIS
shcomp [-nv] [infile [outfile]]
shcomp -D [infile [outfile]]
DESCRIPTION
If the -D option is not specified, shcomp takes a shell script, infile, and creates a binary format file, outfile, that ksh93 reads and
executes with the same effect as the original script.
Aliases are processed as the script is read. Alias definitions whose value requires variable expansion will not work correctly.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-D Generate a list of strings that need to be placed in a message catalog for internationalization.
--dictionary
With this option, all double quoted strings that are preceded by $ are printed, one literal per line. A literal $"foo"
prints "foo" in the output. These are the messages that need to be translated to locale specific versions for internation-
alization.
-n Display warning messages for obsolete or non-conforming constructs.
--noexec
-v Display input from infile onto standard error as it reads it.
--verbose
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
infile Specifies the name of the file that contains the shell script to be used as input.
If infile is omitted, the shell script is read from standard input.
outfile Specifies the name of the output file.
If outfile is omitted, both modes write their results to standard output.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|CSI |Enabled |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |See below. |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
The command-line interface and the system variables are Committed. The compiled shell code format is Private. The output of the -D option
is Volatile.
SEE ALSO ksh93(1), attributes(5)SunOS 5.11 27 Jan 2009 shcomp(1)