[clue-tech] $RANDOM quality.

Jed S. Baer thag at frii.com
Sun Apr 17 14:28:31 MDT 2005


On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:54:34 -0500
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:

> > for i in $(seq 100000) ; do
> >   printf "%.2x\n" $(( $RANDOM % 256 ))
> > done | xxd -r -p | ent
> 
> I don't seem to have 'ent', what package is it a part of?

I think it's part of the middle-earth package, which is maintained by JRR
Tolkien. Ent is more of an object type, of which the most well-known
instance is Treebeard.

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