Shell script to generate random files using RANDOM variable

#!/bin/bash
# Shell script to generate random file method # 1
#
# This is a free shell script under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
#
# Copyright (C) 2005 nixCraft
#
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echo "List of temporary files : "
for i  in 1 2 3 4 5
do
   FILE="/tmp/$(basename $0).$RANDOM.txt"
   echo $FILE # show file name
   > $FILE # create files
done

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1 Nerf June 18, 2008 at 1:40 pm

This is bad practice. A much better way would be to use $$, which is the process ID. In the loop above I would create a filename of “/tmp/$(basename $0).$$.txt”

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2 guy May 19, 2009 at 8:17 am

or both… /tmp/$(basename $0).$RANDOM.$$.txt

say hello to the safe side

:D

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