Hello, There is some strange behavior with $RANDOM, because you don't seed after forking. For a testcase, here you go -- Define a function echoing the value of $RANDOM ``` get_random() { echo "${RANDOM}" } ``` Run it trough a pipe ``` get_random | cat ``` If you run it multiple times, the output is the same. -- There is the patch linked, which fixes it. Have a nice day! -- Valérian Rousset