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The Bourne shell does not have an inbuilt random number generator, but calls other programs to generate random numbers, so the algorithm is dependent on the called program. Here is an example of awk being used:
<lang sh>number=`awk 'BEGIN{print int(rand()*10+1)}'` # Get a random number</lang>
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