Improved random command, by Richard Frankel

Richard has made an improvement to the random command, allowing you to specify the min, the max, and how many numbers to generate.

Examples:

• random 100
• random -min 1998 -max 2005

Richard's command is especially cool because you can combine it with other commands. For example, we can type fspell {random 10000} to generate a series of Flickr images, one for each digit of a random number from 1 to 10000, using Eric Kastner's fspell command.

And continuing our Penny Arcade example, you can get a random Penny Arcade comic from the last 365 days by typing in:

• paview {date -format Y-m-d -offset -{random 365}}

Neat!