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Re: pretty easy thing but too hard for me! (random array element)

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From: Geoff Wing <gcw@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: pretty easy thing but too hard for me! (random array element)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:17:40 +1000
In-reply-to: <20070802015226.GC32551@princo>
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On Thursday 2007-08-02 11:52 +1000, Jean-Rene David output:
:* fREW [2007.08.01 18:00]:
:> AWESOME!  Now I can read a random dinosaur comic
:Would you mind sharing that awesome off-list reply
:with the rest of us?

See the randline function (distributed with zsh for over 15 years) for a hint.
Something like the following will do it.

FILES=( .../files/* )
feh $FILES[$RANDOM%$#FILES+1]

Regards,
Geoff

References:
- Re: pretty easy thing but too hard for me! (random array element)
  - From: fREW
- Re: pretty easy thing but too hard for me! (random array element)
  - From: Jean-Rene David

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