$ perl -V | grep SEED PERL_HASH_SEED="-1" #### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Hash::Util qw(hash_seed); my %t=qw( a A b B c C d D e E f F ); print hash_seed() . "\n"; print join( '', %t) ."\n"; #### $ for i in -1 0 1 42 garbage; do export PERL_HASH_SEED=$i; for j in 1 2 3; do perl test.pl; done; done 3657515954 eEcCaAbBdDfF 3070542819 eEcCaAbBdDfF 185686570 eEcCaAbBdDfF 0 eEcCaAbBdDfF 0 eEcCaAbBdDfF 0 eEcCaAbBdDfF 1 eEcCaAbBdDfF 1 eEcCaAbBdDfF 1 eEcCaAbBdDfF 42 eEcCaAbBdDfF 42 eEcCaAbBdDfF 42 eEcCaAbBdDfF 3381895560 eEcCaAbBdDfF 2632524130 eEcCaAbBdDfF 1729561246 eEcCaAbBdDfF