Bug#629641: ITP: filo -- FILe and stream Operations

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:54:53PM +0000, The Fungi a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:53:06PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:02:34PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > > shuffle will randomize the order of lines in a file. In other
> > > words, if you have a sorted file, shuffle will undo the sort.
> > sort -R
> [...]
> 
> Also worth noting is that /usr/bin/shuf in coreutils is
> traditionally used to this end as well.

Thanks for your comments.  I have presented Upstream the classical approaches
of Debian with too generic command names (wrapper, renaming,
/usr/lib/<package>), and asked him what shuffle does, that alternatives do not.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan