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                 |  | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - 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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