Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!apple!agate!e260-1b!c60c-4ay From: c60c-4ay@e260-1b.berkeley.edu (Raja S Kushalnagar) Newsgroups: alt.sources.wanted Subject: Printing of a random quote. Message-ID: <1989Dec16.064319.21721@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 16 Dec 89 06:43:19 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Reply-To: c60c-4ay@e260-1b (Raja S Kushalnagar) Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19 I have a large file having lots of quotes, in the format: %% ...... quote ............ %% ...... quote ............ %% and so on. I could write a C program to print a quote at random. But I was wondering if it could be done with Unix commands or awk alone. Could it? Raja S Kushalnagar. raja@{athena, ocf, soda} | root@athena | c60c-4ay@web | laba-1ad@web ***************************************************************************** Raja "The Duke" S Kushalnagar. raja@soda.berkeley.edu laba-1ad@web.berkeley.edu raja@athena.berkeley.edu raja@ocf.berkeley.edu c60c-4ay@web.berkeley.edu root@athena.berkeley.edu