2 commands in script wont work together

Shell Programming and Scripting
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For some reason when I run these separately they work but when they are in a script file the second wont:

printf "%s\n" "$RANDOM"."$RANDOM" "$RANDOM"."$RANDOM" "$RANDOM"."$RANDOM" "$RANDOM"."$RANDOM" | tee $HOME/bpl/random

RANDOM1=$( <$HOME/bpl/random )

Anyone know why?

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wasn't it answered here?

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no it wasnt

4

interesting.... I thought it had been.
and you decided to create a new thread instead of following on in the old thread??

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well i changed the script a bit, sorry i guess i should have reposted the new one on there.

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Works fine for me under Ubuntu/bash. Can you provide a bit more information about the shell and O/S version you're using so we can offer a bit more help?

Cheers,
Keith

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for some reason the $RANDOM1 variable wont show any data

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'$RANDOM1' has a 'life-span' of pk2-2 script.
try:

$ . pk2-2
$ echo ${RANDOM1}
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ok cool thanks!