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From: "Pratt, Benjamin E." <bepratt@stcloudstate.edu>
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Subject: Shell script error
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Hello, it's me again.  This time I'm trying to do some shell scripting=20
but I'm running into a problem with a randomization script that I found=20
on the web.  The script I'm trying to run can be found at:
http://www.bsdbooks.net/shells/scripting/randomvar.html#PICKCARD.

Everything runs fine on different Linux systems that I've used (Red Hat
9,=20
Knoppix-STD, PHLAK) but when I run the script on FreeBSD or OpenBSD I
get=20
errors.  I'm mainly running FreeBSD 5.3-BETA right now with
/shells/bash2=20
installed so that's where I'd really like to get it running.

I did change the first line to point to /usr/local/bin/bash but that=20
didn't make any difference.

If anyone knows why this won't run, or if anyone has another example of=20
getting a random character (I'd eventually like to generate a random=20
hexadecimal character) I'd love to hear from you.

Thanks,

Ben