Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am having trouble with generating random numbers. can this be done with awk?

So I have a file that looks like this:

23 30
24 40
26 34

So column1 is start and column2 is end. I want to generate 3 random #'s between start and stop:

So the output will look like this:

23 30 26 28 29
24 40 24 28 38
26 34 28 30 31


where the last 3 columns are random numbers. Is this possible?

thanks

use $RANDOM and appropriate MOD function.

does the $RANDOM function work for awk?

Use -v construct of awk, to read the shell variable into awk processing

Hi,

Please try the below if you are looking for solution in Perl,

while(<DATA>){
srand();
my ($start, $end) = split(/\s/,$_);
my $arr = [$start..$end];
push (my @result,$start,$end);
for(1..3){
push(@result, $arr->[rand(scalar(@$arr))]);
}
print "@result\n";
}
__END__
23 30
24 40
26 34

you can play around with this awk code.

Code:

srand();
r=int(((rand() *(1+MAX-MIN))+MIN));

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
# or bash
cat file | while read a b
do
        echo -n "$a $b"
        ((max=b-a))
        ((n=RANDOM % max + a))
        echo -n " $n"
        ((n=RANDOM % max + a))
        echo -n " $n"
        ((n=RANDOM % max + a))
        echo " $n"
done

You can use shell services also in awk like - not so good as use rand. Shell using = lot of overheading:

Code:

     # define cmd
     cmd="echo $RANDOM"
     cmd | getline  random
     # close pipe
     close(cmd)