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
ETN Systems Inc.
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