Generating random numbers in bash

I wanted to assign each member of a training set to a cross-validation fold.  I wanted to do this in a bash script and so ended up using something like the following:

This script generates n numbers selected randomly in the series of integers from 1 to m.  In this case m represents the number of cross validation folds.


You could generate a random CV fold assignment like so:

Depending on your input file format of course.