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Re: Having random output from a file

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From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Having random output from a file
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:08:39 +0200
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Eike von Seggern <eikevons@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> I use this alias to get a random line from a file (so it would only work
> in your case if each quote is on a single line)
>
> alias rndline='sort -R | head -1'
>
> But it's not using any zsh magic.

If you depend on GNU coreutils anyway, you can just do "shuf -n1".

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Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@xxxxxxxxx>  http://chneukirchen.org

References:
- Having random output from a file
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