On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 01:16:56PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> Three POSIX-compliant shell functions that rely on no extra utilities
> shuff () {
> if [ $(command -v shuf) ]
Needs quotes.
> shuffle -f /dev/stdin -p "$1"
/dev/stdin is not POSIX-compliant.
> else
> awk 'BEGIN{
> "od -tu4 -N4 -A n /dev/urandom" | getline
/dev/urandom is not POSIX-compliant. Then again, I don't believe there
is *any* POSIX-compliant source of randomness available to shell scripts
other than awk's srand and rand.
Emulating /dev/urandom in awk is left as an exercise. ;-)
> [ $(uname) = "SunOS" ] && FILE="/usr/dict/words" ||
> FILE="/usr/share/dict/words"
It'd be better to list all the possible places the dict file may exist,
and iterate through them until you find it, regardless of uname.
Also, don't use all-caps shell variable names. All-caps names are
reserved for special internal variables, and environment variables.
