Randomize-lines
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThe `rl` command will take input and output random lines. On Ubuntu you can install `rl` this way:
sudo apt-get install randomize-lines
This example selects a random restaurant from a list:
echo "Metate Taco Double Play Pub MotoJava cafe Utah Saloon" | rl -c 1
This example plays a random video on the filesystems indexed by `locate`:
locate *.avi | rl -c 1 | xargs -n 1 -d \\n mplayer
This example searches for videos in the current working directory and randomly plays a video:
find . -name '*.avi' -print0 | rl -0 | xargs -n 1 -0 mplayer