Unix Tip #4167- July 9, 2012
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RANDOM LINES FROM A FILE


A easy way to retrieve random lines from a text file:

perl -e '$count = 10; @line = <>; for (1..$count) { print $line[int rand @line] }'

example:
% cat /etc/passwd | perl -e '$count = 10; @line = <>; for (1..$count) { print $line[int rand @line] }'

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