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From: kamat@uceng.UC.EDU (Govind N. Kamat)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do I pick a word at random from a list of words?
Message-ID: <1032@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 19 May 89 03:26:00 GMT
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Organization: College of Engg., Univ. of Cincinnati
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In article <19669@adm.BRL.MIL> bjornand@idt.unit.no (Bjoern Andersen) writes:
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>I need to pick a word from a list in a random sequence. How do I
>achieve that in a csh or sh script?

ksh has a variable called RANDOM, which returns a random value each
time it is accessed.  sh has no equivalent; I don't know about csh.
You could always write a C program to call rand().
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Govind N. Kamat				College of Engineering
kamat@uceng.UC.EDU			University of Cincinnati
					Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA