Well-established scripting languages, like Python, can do system calls, read and write files or directories, and do all the things shell can do. Without workarounds like “% as a wildcard”.

Lisp is one of those programming languages that seems to keep taunting us for not learning it properly. It is still used for teaching functional languages today. [Adam McDaniel] has an obvious fond… ...

This will be done via a simple arithmetic operation in shell using % (Modulus operator, returns remainder), $((RANDOM%2)) and this will be stored in a result variable. So, the second line of our ...