.TH RNDI 1df "August 2016" "Manual page for rndi" .SH NAME .B rndi \- return a low-quality random integer .SH SYNOPSIS .B rndi 0 10 .SH DESCRIPTION .B rndi returns a random integer ranging from the first argument to the second argument in a POSIX-compliant way (using awk), using rnds(1df) if available for a seed. .P The answer returned is low-quality; on some platforms, it may even return the same result if run within the same second. This should not be used in any sort of security or statistical context. The author wrote it to support scripts to choose a random background image from a directory. .SH SEE ALSO rnda(1df), rndf(1df), rndl(1df), rnds(1df), rndn(6df) .SH AUTHOR Tom Ryder