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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting randomly shuffle two text files the same way Post 302551850 by Chubler_XL on Wednesday 31st of August 2011 10:34:08 PM
Old 08-31-2011
Another idea if your shuf supports --random-source

Code:
$ dd if=/dev/random of=myrand count=1024
 
$ shuf --random-source=myrand file1
one
three
five
four
two

$ shuf --random-source=myrand file2
1
3
5
4
2

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SHUF(1) 							   User Commands							   SHUF(1)

NAME
shuf - generate random permutations SYNOPSIS
shuf [OPTION]... [FILE] shuf -e [OPTION]... [ARG]... shuf -i LO-HI [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION
Write a random permutation of the input lines to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -e, --echo treat each ARG as an input line -i, --input-range=LO-HI treat each number LO through HI as an input line -n, --head-count=COUNT output at most COUNT lines -o, --output=FILE write result to FILE instead of standard output --random-source=FILE get random bytes from FILE -r, --repeat output lines can be repeated -z, --zero-terminated line delimiter is NUL, not newline --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by Paul Eggert. REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report shuf translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/shuf> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) shuf invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 SHUF(1)
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