MATLAB: In Unix, not replaced variables

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Hello all, I am running Matlab jobs in the background on Unix server. For simple example, the ex.m file contains;

for i=1:10; a(i)=normrnd(1,1); end;

and I am running this file on Unix as seen below; matlab -nodesktop -nodisplay < ex.m >&file.out&

The problem is that if I repeat this job, I obtain the exactly same 'a' values. Although I removed all the result files and rerun the program, the 'a' variable didn't change at all.

I appreciate any answers. Thank you.

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MATLAB starts with the same seed for the random number generator. To get different numbers, you need differently inilitializations. A secure method to get independent seeds is e.g. FEX: randi.org.

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