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$RANDOM bug


From: Antoni Sawicki
Subject: $RANDOM bug
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 00:14:54 +0100

Hi,

I'm not sure it's really a bug, but for me it is.

VER   : 2.every
HW/OS : every
CC=   : gcc (every)

echo $(($RANDOM%2))

returns sequencial 0 and 1 and 0 and 1 and 0 and 1, I mean:

01010101010101010101 ... and not "random", what should be:
00101101110010001111 ... etc...

It causes positioning problems in my scrip:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Random Password Generator v2 for BASH 2.x by Antek Sawicki <tenox@tenox.tc>
#

NMATRIX='0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
SMATRIX='!@#$%^&*()_+-={}[],.<>?`~;:"'

NLENGTH='6'
SLENGTH='2'

while [ ${n:=1} -le $NLENGTH ]
do
        [ "${m:=$SLENGTH}" -le "0" ] && unset m
        PASS="$PASS${NMATRIX:$(($RANDOM%${#NMATRIX})):1}${SMATRIX:$(($RANDOM%${#SMATRIX})):${m:+1}}"
        let n+=1 m-=1
done

echo "$PASS"

The characters from SMATRIX are placed only in even positions.

Regards,
Antoni



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