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PowerShell cmdLet: Get-Random

By default, get-random returns a System.Int32 whose value is between 0 and [System.Int]::MaxValue.
The range of return values can be restricted: 
PS> get-random -minimum 1000 -maximum 2000
1620
The PRG can be seeded: 
PS> get-random -setSeed 42
381294397
PS> get-random
1003291822
Select n random elements from an array: 
PS> get-random -count 3 ('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five')
one
five
three
Powershell 7 - Randomly permutate an array: 
PS> get-random -shuffle ('one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five')
three
one
five
four
two

See also

PowerShell 7.4 adds the cmdlet get-secureRandom.

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