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<h1>random - generate random number<a class="headerlink" href="#random-generate-random-number" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Synopsis<a class="headerlink" href="#synopsis" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<div class="highlight-fish-synopsis notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nf">random</span>
<span class="nf">random</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">SEED</span>
<span class="nf">random</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">START</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">END</span>
<span class="nf">random</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">START</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">STEP</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">END</span>
<span class="nf">random</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">choice</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="g g-Other">[</span><span class="no">ITEMS</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="g g-Other">...]</span>
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<h2>Description<a class="headerlink" href="#description" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">random</span></code> generates a pseudo-random integer from a uniform distribution. The
range (inclusive) depends on the arguments.</p>
<p>No arguments indicate a range of 0 to 32767 (inclusive).</p>
<p>If one argument is specified, the internal engine will be seeded with the
argument for future invocations of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">random</span></code> and no output will be produced.</p>
<p>Two arguments indicate a range from <em>START</em> to <em>END</em> (both <em>START</em> and <em>END</em> included).</p>
<p>Three arguments indicate a range from <em>START</em> to <em>END</em> with a spacing of <em>STEP</em>
between possible outputs.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">random</span> <span class="pre">choice</span></code> will select one random item from the succeeding arguments.</p>
<p>The <strong>-h</strong> or <strong>--help</strong> option displays help about using this command.</p>
<p>Note that seeding the engine will NOT give the same result across different
systems.</p>
<p>You should not consider <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">random</span></code> cryptographically secure, or even
statistically accurate.</p>
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<p>The following code will count down from a random even number between 10 and 20 to 1:</p>
<div class="highlight-fish-docs-samples notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nf">for</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">i</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nf">in</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nf">seq</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nf">random</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">10</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">2</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">20</span><span class="o">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">-1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">1</span><span class="o">)</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="nf">echo</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">$i</span>
<span class="nf">end</span>
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<p>And this will open a random picture from any of the subdirectories:</p>
<div class="highlight-fish-docs-samples notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nf">open</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nf">random</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">choice</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">**</span><span class="no">.jpg</span><span class="o">)</span>
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<p>Or, to only get even numbers from 2 to 20:</p>
<div class="highlight-fish-docs-samples notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nf">random</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">2</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">2</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">20</span>
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<p>Or odd numbers from 1 to 3:</p>
<div class="highlight-fish-docs-samples notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nf">random</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">1</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">2</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">3</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c"># or 1 2 4</span>
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