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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Random fields Post 302491802 by jim mcnamara on Friday 28th of January 2011 10:38:15 AM
Old 01-28-2011
All f1 must the the subject, f2 the predicate, or all f1=subject + verb and f2 = object
Create a tab delimited file, example:
Code:
John Smith [tab] ate an apple
Jennie Smith [tab] has an apiary

Code:
# get number of lines in input file, this uses cat on purpose to avoid extra output
lcnt=$(wc -l < inputfile)
rand1=$(( $RANDOM % $lcnt  + 1 ))
rand2=$(( $RANDOM % $lcnt +  1 ))
awk -F 'tab character goes here'  -v r1=rand1 -v r2=rand2  '
             NR==r1 {f1=$1}  NR==r2{f2==$2} {next} END {printf f1,f2  } ' inputfile

 

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OHCOUNT(1)							   User Commands							OHCOUNT(1)

NAME
ohcount - manual page for ohcount 3.0.0 SYNOPSIS
ohcount [option] [paths...] DESCRIPTION
Ohloh source code line counter command line tool. http://www.ohloh.net/ [option] can be one of the following: -a, --annotate -d, --detect -h, --help -i, --individual -l, --license -re -s, --summary -a, --annotate Show annotated source code The contents of all source code files found within the given paths will be emitted to stdout. Each line will be prefixed with a tab-delimited language name and semantic categorization (code, comment, or blank). -d, --detect Find source code files Recursively find all source code files within the given paths. For each source code file found, the file name will be emitted to stdout prefixed with a tab-delimited language name. -h, --help Display this message -i, --individual Count lines of code per file Count lines in all source code files within the given paths, and emit a report of the lines of code, comments, and blanks in each language per file. -l, --license Displays detected licensing information contained in each source code file. -re Prints raw entity information to the screen (mainly for debugging). -s, --summary Count lines of code (default) Count lines in all source code files within the given paths, and emit a report of the total number of lines of code, comments, and blanks in each language. This is the default action. [paths] can refer to any number of individual files or directories. Directories will be probed recursively. If no path is given, the current directory will be used. ohcount 3.0.0 September 2011 OHCOUNT(1)
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