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From: Giorgio <giorgio.nicole@arcor.de>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: variables with random values
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 21:34:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c4dfe40-5338-cdbe-f96d-a5275f75872b@arcor.de> (raw)


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Hi,

I'm writing a shell script within barebox to assist an embedded board
initialization process. Some commands in the script do firmware
download with tftp; to allow initializing more than one board at
a time I need to assign every board a random ip address; I would
like to have a shell variable that every time it is dereferenced
it results in a new random (8 bits) value so I could write:

eth0.ipaddr=10.$RND.$RND.$RND

Is there a way to do something similar in barebox ?

giorgio



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             reply	other threads:[~2016-05-12 19:34 UTC|newest]

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2016-05-12 19:34 Giorgio [this message]
2016-05-12 19:41 ` Trent Piepho

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