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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting randomly shuffle two text files the same way Post 302551840 by Corona688 on Wednesday 31st of August 2011 08:21:44 PM
Old 08-31-2011
Combine them into one line of two things with paste, shuffle them with shuf, separate them out into two files again. I've done it with awk but you could do it many ways.
Code:
$ paste -d : file1 file2 | shuf
five:5
two:2
one:1
four:4
three:3
$ paste -d ':' file1 file2 | shuf | awk -v FS=":" '{ print $1 > "out1" ; print $2 > "out2" }'

Your output files shouldn't be the same as your input files. If you need it to be, just rename the new files overtop of the old.

I didn't know about the shuf command. Thanks.
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