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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Alternate to sort --random-sort Post 302623793 by Lakris on Saturday 14th of April 2012 04:07:13 PM
Old 04-14-2012
Hi, I know You already have an answer, but the following could be an alternative, insert where You have
Code:
***Some sort of sort function***

It's using the same idea but with other programs.
Code:
while read line;do echo $RANDOM'|'$line;done |sort|cut -d"|" -f2-

Best regards, Lakris
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cbtest

CBTEST(1)						      Quick Database Manager							 CBTEST(1)

NAME

       cbtest - test cases for QDBM Cabin

SYNOPSIS

       cbtest sort [-d] rnum
       cbtest strstr [-d] rnum
       cbtest list [-d] rnum
       cbtest map [-d] rnum
       cbtest wicked rnum
       cbtest misc

DESCRIPTION

       The command `cbtest' is a utility for facility test and performance test.  Measure the execution time of the command.  This command is used
       in the following format.  `rnum' specifies the number of records.

       cbtest sort [-d] rnum
	      Perform test of sorting algorithms.

       cbtest sort [-d] rnum
	      Perform test of string locating algorithms.

       cbtest list [-d] rnum
	      Perform writing test of list.

       cbtest map [-d] rnum
	      Perform writing test of map.

       cbtest wicked rnum
	      Perform updating operations of list and map selected at random.

       cbtest misc
	      Perform test of miscellaneous routines.

       Options feature the following.

	      -d : read and show data of the result.

       This command returns 0 on success, another on failure.

SEE ALSO

       qdbm(3), cabin(3)

AUTHOR

       QDBM was written by Mikio Hirabayashi <mikio@fallabs.com>.

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