On 27 Sep 2001, Jeremy Whetzel wrote:
> I'm in the process of writing up a script that I need to be able to
> "randomly" switch around the lines in a text file. (ala a random mp3
> playlist) Would anyone have any suggestions? I was originally thinking
> of using a random number generator for it, but if there's a tool that
> would work better...?
/dev/random gives random bits. I don't know where it is documented.
There is a system call random() (see man 3 random). You could write a
wrapper C program to use it in scripts.
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