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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do I pick a word at random from a list of words?
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Date: 19 May 89 19:57:33 GMT
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In article <19669@adm.BRL.MIL> bjornand@idt.unit.no (Bjoern Andersen) writes:
>
>I need to pick a word from a list in a random sequence. How do I
>achieve that in a csh or sh script?
>
>-- Bjoern.

In the Unix archives at j.cc.purdue.edu, ( anonymous ftp to it, use
128.210.9.2 if necessary...) in the comp.unix.sources/volume2
directory, is a PD program called 'choose'.  Snarf it, compile it, and
try it.  It selects random lines from a file, but the least you can do
is rearrange its innards to select random words from a
whitespace-separated set of words...

				--Blair