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Re: [Help-bash] $RANDOM excludes value zero when called in a subscript
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David |
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Re: [Help-bash] $RANDOM excludes value zero when called in a subscript |
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Wed, 7 Aug 2019 00:04:01 +1000 |
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 23:17, Greg Wooledge <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 10:20:50AM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> > The test program I wrote may be found at http://rogerprice.org/randtest.sh .
> > The anomaly also appears on Debian stretch BASH_VERSION=4.4.12(1)-release.
> > Is
> > this a bug or am I doing something wrong? - any hint would be very welcome.
> First mistake is making us go to a web page to retrive the script.
[...lots of great advice...]
A little extra, general hint: you can avoid many pitfalls by checking
parts of your code using the shellcheck tool:
https://www.shellcheck.net/