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RANDOMIZE

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
NOTES
COPYRIGHT

NAME

randomize − randomize lines from a file or from stdin

SYNOPSIS

randomize [−h(elp)] [−0/−z(ero_terminated)] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

randomize prints out the lines of one or more files in random order. If no file is specified, lines are taken from stdin.

OPTIONS

	−h		Print help and quit.
	−0		Assume that lines are separated with NULL characters instead of EOL characters. This is intended to work with the -print0 option of find and/or the -0/--null option of xargs.
	−z		Synonym for the -0 option.

NOTES

The number and length of lines is limited by system memory. The entire contents of all lines to be randomized must fit into memory at once.

A program called shuf was added to the GNU coreutils 6.0 in 2006. It operates very similarly to randomize. Also, version 6.1 of coreutils added the −R option to sort to make it provide randomized output. If you are trying to write highly portable shell scripts, you might consider using shuf or sort −R instead.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2004-2021 by Brian Lindholm. This program is free software; you can use it, redistribute it, and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.