How to get the current time in seconds-since-the-epoch with `awk`:
```
awk 'BEGIN {srand(); print srand()}'
```

@th wild, i love it! I can't think of any other platform where you can inspect the rng seed like that.

Follow

@phooky have you seen Guy Steele's "Fast splittable PRNG" for deterministic multi-threaded pseudorandomness? dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/266

Sign in to participate in the conversation
(void *) social site

(void*)