On 11/14/07, bharder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Anyone knows how to choose a random image file from a directory using an
> > > rc or shell script for use with the commands proposed by Chris?
> >
> >  I was going to say: ls *.png *.jpg etc |shuf |sed q
> >  But I don't /have/ shuf here. I wonder where it came from on my home
> > machine... GNU coreutils it seems, must have a newer version at home.
> > Anyway, shuf is not on my netbsd machine either so I wrote this naive
> > replacement:
>
> On NetBSD, shuffle(1).

Or "fortune <{ls}"... it's cross-platform ;)

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