[NTLUG:Discuss] Bash script question

[Chris Cox]

Lance Simmons wrote:
> * Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> [050119 15:19]:
> 
>>Off the top of my head (this is bash)
>>
>>file="$1"
>># Cheep seeding (good enough?)
>>RANDOM=$(expr $(date +%d%S%M%S) % 32767)
>>for (( i=1; i <= 40; i++)); do
>>	s=$(expr $RANDOM % 100)
>>	sed -n "${s}p" $file
>>done
> 
> 
> A noticeable percentage of the time, sed chokes on line address 0.
> 

hee hee... just add one I guess... hey... it was
off of the top of my head (the way buffer overflows
and such are born!)

s=$(expr $s + 1)