Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/bash

#: Title		: randomFloats
#: Date			: 2011-03-27
#: Author		: pharaoh
#: Version		: 1.0 
#: Discription	        : Generate a 4 float numbers with 5 decimal places and write them to a file and a variable 


listFloats=0.0
for i in $(seq 0 3)
do
    aux=$[($RANDOM % 15000)]
	printf -v aux "%.5f" ${aux}
	
	#In the first iteration it just set the variable, in the others it append
	if [ ${i} -eq 0 ]
	then
		listFloats=${aux}
		printf ${aux} > randomFloats.txt
	else 
		listFloats="${listFloats} ${aux}"
		printf ${aux} >> randomFloats.txt
	fi
done

printf "%s\n" ${listFloats}

#!/bin/bash
listFloats=0.0
for i in {0..3}
do
   aux=$(printf "0.%03d%02d" $(( $RANDOM % 1000 )) $(( $RANDOM % 100)))
   if [ ${i} -eq 0 ]
   then
   ...