On 03/06/15 14:20, Federico Alves wrote: > I think that shuf should have an option, may set ON by default, to avoid > empty lines in a file when shuffling it. if a file has 100 lines and ten are > simply returns, 99% of the time I do not want an empty line, I want only the > real lines.
We would only consider that if it provided functional benefits or large performance gains. Neither would be the case here I think compared to some simple preprocessing like: sed '/^$/d' | shuf cheers, Pádraig
