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Getting a random file
Hello, I am very new to shell scripting. This problem seems quite easy so it should be quite easy (I hope ^^)
I want to get a random file from a directory. this file will be in one subdirectory, and it will contain spaces. code I have got so far: N=find ./*/*.jpg | wc -l ((N=RANDOM%N)) That gives me a number. Now I want to select the Nth file in this file list generated by find ./*/*.jpg I wanted to use echo ./*/*.jpg except that gave me spaces as a delimiter, which is kind of stupid ^^, since file names contain spaces |
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