I have a small patch that adds an option (-s) to the random command.
It prints one random line out of every _denominator_ lines to stdout.
For example, if you feed it an ls of /bin (32 files) to stdin, with
"random -s 4" you will get series of 8 (=32/4) random filenames from
/bin.
dalroi * cd /bin
dalroi * ls|random -s 4
chio
dd
domainname
hostname
mv
red
rmail
test
If anybody is interested I'll send it, according to the guidelines (But
then I'll have to read up a bit on them first, this is my first FreeBSD
patch).
--
Alban Hertroys http://wit401310.student.utwente.nl
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