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Re: [BUG Report] A incorrect behavior of the shell variable $RANDOM

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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: 万在舟 <wanzzmicro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "zsh-workers@xxxxxxx" <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [BUG Report] A incorrect behavior of the shell variable $RANDOM
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 12:20:29 +0100
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On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 12:09 PM 万 在舟 <wanzzmicro@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Description: $RANDOM is always the same value when I try to use it in “$()” expression.

This is working as intended. From `man zshparam`:

> subshells that reference RANDOM will result in identical pseudo-random values unless the value of RANDOM is referenced or seeded in the parent shell in between subshell invocations.

Roman.

References:
- [BUG Report] A incorrect behavior of the shell variable $RANDOM
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