Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 18:38:55 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Sean Chittenden <seanc@FreeBSD.ORG>, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making random(6) actually useful... Message-ID: <200302091838.h19IctaX035218@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Feb 2003 13:46:54 %2B0100." <20030209124654.GA35137@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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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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