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rand.c by Erik Greenwald (C) 1998-2017 this software is released under the GPL
!!WARNING!! this software is NOT PROTECTED BY WARRANTY.
This program will take a file, input stream, or list of 'words' and repeat
them in a random order to the given output file or stdout. Kinda the opposite
of sort...
rand [-lwvh] [-f <input file>] [-o <output file>]
Pipe usage:
/bin/ls | rand [-lw] [-o <output file>]
file usage:
rand [-lw] -f COPYING [-o <output file>]
other:
rand [-vh]
Installation: read INSTALL.
Bug reports:
email [email protected], provide as much useful info as possible.
What to do with this? well, you can queue up programs in a random order... someone was complaining about mpg123 not having a 'shuffle' command (which it does), this could provide that. A teacher writing a test could use this to generate tests that have the same questions but in different order... etc etc etc. One interesting use was a sysadmin using this to scramble 'script kiddies' exploit sources. While not completely ethical, it's terribly amusing :)
Thanks to Dr Shade <[email protected]> (Southwest Missouri State University)
for redoing the randomizing algorithm to be lightening fast. O(n^2) to O(n).
Thanks to Martin Hinsch for proposing the time() seed
Thanks to buccaneer and MLongHair for helping me get it working on
fbsd/sunos/solaris/aix