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| author |  David Adam (zanchey) <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> | 2013-05-12 15:56:01 +0800 |
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| committer |  ridiculousfish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com> | 2013-05-13 01:48:20 -0700 |
| commit | 1287b9d82382bf22e16edda67eae755f07397f2e (patch) | |
| tree | 811814b029d65ac11a193e616ca4a71d216dbe0c /doc_src/random.txt | |
| parent | 91aab03b90a6b583a3c0ecff5b015c6066d34f28 (diff) | |
Help cleanup
Large list of changes, including formatting and typos for most commands.
More substantive changes have been made to alias, bind, block, break,
builtin, case, cd, commandline, count, else, emit, fish_config, funced,
function, functions, history, math, mimedb, nextd, not, popd, prevd,
pushd, pwd, random, read, set, set_color, switch, test, trap, type,
ulimit, umask, and while.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc_src/random.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc_src/random.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc_src/random.txt b/doc_src/random.txt index ad9b658a..b6bb9df0 100644 --- a/doc_src/random.txt +++ b/doc_src/random.txt @@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ \subsection random-description Description -The \c random command is used to generate a random number in the -interval 0<=N<32767. If an argument is given, it is used to seed the -random number generator. This can be useful for debugging purposes, -where it can be desirable to get the same random number sequence +\c random outputs a random number from 0 to 32766, inclusive. + +If a \c SEED value is provided, it is used to seed the random number +generator, and no output will be produced. This can be useful for debugging +purposes, where it can be desirable to get the same random number sequence multiple times. If the random number generator is called without first seeding it, the current time will be used as the seed. |