Comments on: We don’t play favourites. http://breakingsystemsforfunandprofit.com/archives/176 You _can_ stop the signal. Wed, 12 May 2010 16:58:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mule http://breakingsystemsforfunandprofit.com/archives/176/comment-page-1#comment-30 Mule Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:49:40 +0000 http://breakingsystemsforfunandprofit.com/?p=176#comment-30 The -R flag got introduced in newer versions of sort. Fedora 11 has at it, but I don't know when it got introduced. If you haven't got a newer version of sort you can use: <pre lang="bash">sed -n "$[${RANDOM} % $(wc -l /etc/shells | cut -d' ' -f1) + 1]p" /etc/shells</pre> The -R flag got introduced in newer versions of sort. Fedora 11 has at it, but I don’t know when it got introduced.
If you haven’t got a newer version of sort you can use:

sed -n "$[${RANDOM} % $(wc -l /etc/shells | cut -d' ' -f1) + 1]p" /etc/shells
]]> By: Gabriel Menini http://breakingsystemsforfunandprofit.com/archives/176/comment-page-1#comment-28 Gabriel Menini Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:50:51 +0000 http://breakingsystemsforfunandprofit.com/?p=176#comment-28 I assume the ``-R' flag to sort randomizes the order. However, I don't have that flag ─neither in Linux(bash) nor in Unix(ksh). Anyway, the script is amazing ;-) I assume the “-R’ flag to sort randomizes the order.
However, I don’t have that flag ─neither in Linux(bash) nor in Unix(ksh).

Anyway, the script is amazing ;-)

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