126 lines
3.8 KiB
Groff
126 lines
3.8 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1994
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" are met:
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)random.6 8.2 (Berkeley) 3/31/94
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd February 8, 2003
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.Dt RANDOM 6
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm random
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.Nd random lines from a file or random numbers
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm
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.Op Fl elrUuw
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.Op Fl f Ar filename
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.Op Ar denominator
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Random
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has two distinct modes of operations.
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The default is to read in lines
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from the standard input and randomly write them out
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to the standard output with a probability of
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1 /
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.Ar denominator .
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The default
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.Ar denominator
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for this mode of operation is 2, giving each line a 50/50 chance of
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being displayed.
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.Pp
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The second mode of operation is to read in a file from
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.Ar filename
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and randomize the contents of the file and send it back out to
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standard output.
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The contents can be randomized based off of newlines or based off of
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space characters as determined by
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.Xr isspace 3 .
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The default
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.Ar denominator
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for this mode of operation is 1, which gives each line a chance to be
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displayed, but in a
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.Xr random 3
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order.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width Ds
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.It Fl e
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If the
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.Fl e
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option is specified,
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.Nm
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does not read or write anything, and simply exits with a random
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exit value of 0 to
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.Ar denominator
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\&- 1, inclusive.
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.It Fl f Ar filename
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The
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.Fl f
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option is used to specify the
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.Ar filename
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to read from.
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Standard input is used if
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.Ar filename
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is set to
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.Sq Fl .
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.It Fl l
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Randomize the input via newlines (the default).
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.It Fl r
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The
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.Fl r
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option guarantees that the output is unbuffered.
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.It Fl U
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Tells
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.Xr random 6
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that it is okay for it to reuse any given line or word when creating a
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randomized output.
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.It Fl u
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Tells
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.Xr random 6
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not to select the same line or word from a file more than once (the
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default).
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This does not guarantee uniqueness if there are two of the
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same tokens from the input, but it does prevent selecting the same
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token more than once.
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.It Fl w
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Randomize words separated by
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.Xr isspace 3
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instead of newlines.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr random 3 ,
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.Xr fortune 6
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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functionality to randomizing lines and words was added in 2003 by
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.An Sean Chittenden Aq Mt seanc@FreeBSD.org .
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.Sh BUGS
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No index is used when printing out tokens from the list which
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makes it rather slow for large files (10MB+).
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For smaller
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files, however, it should still be quite fast and efficient.
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