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My problem is my program has to prompt a user to do a guess game. The user has to guess a letter from a word that the program randomly chooses and then set a number of lives.

If the user guesses...

I need to use the $RANDOM command to get a line from a list of lines in a file randomly.

file is
help
go
three
house
film

how do i randomly get one word without looking into the file?

Hi Franklin
I have tried this but then i get an error command not found in line 5

Can anyone help me pls? I want to add a text into the middle of file.
I've writtenthe following script

text to add="$1"
file="$2"
lines=$(wc -l $2)
half_lines=$(expr $lines / 2)
head...

Thanks, but i dont want to use sed or awk

I want to insert a text into the middle of a file