HACKTUX notes from the trenches

Call the bash builtin variable $RANDOM to produce a random integer between 0 and 32767.

bash$ echo $RANDOM
194
bash$ echo $RANDOM
7601
bash$ echo $RANDOM
17576

For more control, use let to manipulate the number range. Examples below.

For a single digit Integer:

let R=$RANDOM%10; echo $R

For a number between 0 and 99

let R=$RANDOM%100; echo $R

For a number between 1 and 100

let R=$RANDOM%100+1; echo $R