Re: Making random(6) actually useful...

Erik Trulsson writes:
> >    find ~/mp3s -name '*.mp3' | random -f - > play_list.m3u
> 
> Have you looked at misc/shuffle from the ports collection?  It seems to
> do what you want, is small and is BSD-licensed.

We don't need a new tool if an existing tool will work. :-)

The above can be done with a (nasty looking) one-liner using jot, 
wc, paste, sort and awk:

$ ${do_stuff} > file && jot -r `wc -l file` 1 | paste /dev/stdin file | sort | awk '{print $2}' > file. && mv file. file

Modifying random(6) to do this makes sense, in that it is generalising a
tool. Using a whole new tool makes less sense.

M
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Mark Murray
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