$RANDOM – random numbers BASHed

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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Donncha Ó Caoimh is a software developer at Automattic and WordPress plugin developer. He posts photos at In Photos and can also be found on Mastodon.

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