March 16th, 2006

$RANDOM – random numbers BASHed

Linux, by Donncha.

You learn something new every day! $RANDOM is a random number in BASH. Using another script as a base, I now have a little app that picks out a random image from my photo library every 10 minutes and changes my desktop background!

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