Turn Bash Into A Game Of Chance With $RANDOM

This short video demonstrates how you can make the terminal a bit more exciting by introducing a bit of randomness into your commands.

THE COMMANDS: [ $[$RANDOM % 10] = 0 ] && command1 || command2 [ $[$RANDOM % 10] = 0 ] && timeout 5 command1 || command2 alias clear='[ $[$RANDOM % 1] = 0 ] && cd /home/dt/vt100 && ./slowcat.pl $(/bin/ls | grep .vt | shuf -n 1) || clear'

REFERENCED: ► https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/randomvar.html ► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100 ► http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/ - VT animations ► http://artscene.textfiles.com/viewers/linux/slowcat.pl - Slowcat perl script

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