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Yeah, when I read that I also tried the first thing that popped into my mind - extremely crude/slow but works in bash and only took like 20 seconds without look

by Izkata 3y ago

Yeah, when I read that I also tried the first thing that popped into my mind - extremely crude/slow but works in bash and only took like 20 seconds without looking anything up: cat /usr/share/dict/words | while read LINE; do echo "$RANDOM $LINE"; done | sort -h | head -n 100 | awk '{ print $2 }'

arp242 3y ago
sort -R is fairly widely supported, although arguably that's cheating.
- Izkata 3y ago
  I thought something like that might exist and was tempted to check for that, but given the context I really wanted to do it without looking anything up. I see now there's also "shuf".