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The condition guarantee to be satisfied after about 10 loops

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try:

Code:

for (( i=1;i<=100;i++ ))
do
echo $RANDOM $i
done|sort -k1|cut -d" " -f2|head -10|while (condition)
do
read number
do some work here using random number until condition satisfied
done

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