Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 21:16:51 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unsorting Message-ID: <20001125211651.B6923@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20001125143838.Z12190@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from "Crist J . Clark" on Sat Nov 25 14:38:38 GMT 2000 References: <20001126023150.F377@welearn.com.au> <20001125143838.Z12190@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 25), Crist J . Clark said: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 02:31:53AM +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > > Is there some fairly simple way I can put a list of letters or > > words, or lines of a text file, into a random order? > > However, a really quick and ugly approach is to load the list into > memory, then just step through it swapping each item with another in > a random location. To be a little different, here is an awk(1) script > that does it, And just to be a bit more different, here's a shell script that will randomize the contents of the filename passed on the commandline: #! /bin/sh jot -r $(wc -l < $1) 1 1000000 | paste - $1 | sort -n | cut -f2- -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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