random naming

[trancor]

Neat idea, not too hard to do. How I'd do it is set up a string array with the names you want, and then simply pull a random number element from that array.

string $locNames[]={"Rabadon", "Shlaboush", "Nogiton", "Goofahob"};
int $randName=rand(0,(size($locNames)));
//Test the code
print $locNames[$randName];

//For the renaming --
rename locatorName $locNames[$randName];



Lets say you want to have multiple objects you have selected that you want them to rename randomly-


string $locNames[]={"Rabadon", "Shlaboush", "Nogiton", "Goofahob"};
string $selected[]=`ls -sl`;
for($i=0; $i<(size($selected)); ++$i){
int $randName=rand(0,(size($locNames)));
rename $selected[$i] $locNames[$randName];
}


Hope you can work with this, good luck on the script.

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