in reply to Generating same seed between 2 processes

Add a third process that generates your random seed, and then supplies it to the two existing processes via their command lines: 

perl -e"$s= rand; qx[$argv[0] $s]; qx[ $ARGV[1] $s];" script1.pl scrip
+t2.pl

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Switch command line conventions as appropriate.

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