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From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
Subject: Re: random once but not twice
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 23:26:04 +0100
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Mikael Magnusson wrote:

> The subshell in the second function ensures
> that the RANDOM state in the parent shell
> stays the same.

But why doesn't the next invocation produce
a new value? As in

    random-test () {
        repeat 10 echo $RANDOM
    }

    $ random-test

    9235
    18141
    28176
    10397
    14564
    21514
    2335
    31921
    7989
    8201

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