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.TH RNDI 1 "August 2016" "Manual page for rndi"
.SH NAME
.B rndi
\- return a low-quality random integer between two bounds
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B rndi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.B rndi
returns a random integer ranging from the first argument to the second argument
in a POSIX-compliant way (using awk).
.P
The answer returned is low-quality; given some implementation of awk, it may
even return the same result if run within the same second. some
implementations. This should not be used in any sort of security or statistical
context. The author wrote it to support scripts to choose a random background
image from a directory.
.SH SEE ALSO
rnda(1), rndf(1), rndn(6)
.SH AUTHOR
Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz>