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Welcome to bashoneliners.com, a curated collection of practical and well-explained Bash one-liners, snippets, tips and tricks. We aim to make each published one-liner to be of high quality: useful, easy to read, follows best practices, with clear, detailed, accurate explanation. These one-liners should help you automate tasks, troubleshoot problems, whether it be in system administration, file management, networking or programming.

Generate a pseudo-random 6-digit number

let N=0 N=N+10**{0..5}*${RANDOM:0:1}

December 7, 2019CK

Generate a random number of up to 6 digits

python -c 'import random; print(random.randint(0, 10**6 - 1))'

September 19, 2018johntellsall