If you have BASH
OR ksh
you can use $RANDOM
variable:
rand=$RANDOM
Question
I need to create a shell script or a command that will produce random string, something like this:
date | md5sum
but it needs to work on default hp-ux installation, which doesn't contain any md5sum, there is neither /dev/random or /dev/urandom
Someone has an idea if that is even possible and if yes, how?
Solution
If you have BASH
OR ksh
you can use $RANDOM
variable:
rand=$RANDOM