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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:00:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander Best <arundel@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: bin/15205: [patch] Addition to random(6)
Message-ID:  <201008101000.o7AA0MBs063152@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <201008100250.o7A2o69w075898@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:
 >  could you provide an example how to reproduce the same output
 > (ls /bin | random -s 8) with an unpatched copy of ranom?

It's random, so it cannot be reproduced.  ;-)

But seriously ...  If you want random 4 lines out of 32
(or out of any number, for that matter), the following
command will do it:

$ ls /bin | random -f - | head -4

I agree that this PR can be closed.

Best regards
   Oliver

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