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| Newer page: | version 35 | Last edited on Friday, June 8, 2007 1:01:38 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 33 | Last edited on Thursday, June 7, 2007 6:20:49 pm | by BenStaz | Revert |
@@ -37,4 +37,10 @@
!Random Bash Script I Just Wrote
<verbatim>
IFS=$'\n'; lines=($(aptitude search ~g)) count=${#lines[@]}; random_index=$((RANDOM % count)); echo "${lines[random_index]}"
</verbatim>
+
+ More easily:
+ <verbatim>
+ aptitude search ~g | while read ; do echo "$RANDOM $REPLY" ; done | sort -n | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f2-
+ </verbatim>
+ —AristotlePagaltzis
