Re: Needing a random number generator for scripting

[Rich Puhek <rpuhek@etnsystems.com>]

Dave gets my vote for the best answer.

I'm a bit biased in that I like a "meat grinder" approach with sed, awk,
cat, and a lot of pipesigns, but you've got to admit, his little
oneliner script is much tidier than the "here's how it's done in my
favorite language" answers.



Dave Thayer wrote:
> 
> awk 'BEGIN {srand()} {print rand() "\t" $0 }' unshuffled.m3u \
>  | sort | cut -f2 > shuffled.m3u
> 

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Rich Puhek               
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