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A post at Manik 2.0 got me thinking on whether or not the $RANDOM variable in bash was really all that random.  So, I created a little test script.  It's quite simple.  It accepts a command line argument for number of loops. Then, each loop, it assigns a random number to $RANDTEST, and then compares $RANDTEST to $RANDOM. Since $RANDOM changes every time, it should never, ever match.

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