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# 1  
Old 04-23-2009
random select text file ranamed
i want to need script..



source.txt
/home/user1/public_html/test3
/home/user90/public_html/test9
.
.
.
/home/user650/public_html/test000




read source.txt and cd /home/user**/public_html/***
and there is 1.txt, 2txt ~~25.txt
and select 6 text files randomly among the 1.txt ,2.txt ~~ 25.txt
selected 6 text files be renamed word1.words , word2.words ~~ word6.words in this pattern..
# 2  
Old 04-27-2009
Your question is difficult to answer, especially because it is not clear what you are asking. What is to be done with "source.txt"?

You want to randomly rename files in user's home directories? That sounds like malware.
# 3  
Old 04-29-2009
source.txt


/home/user1/public_html/test3
/home/user90/public_html/test9
.
.
.
/home/user650/public_html/test000


there are a lot of directories in source.txt --->maybe 1000 home directories

these directories have 1.txt, 2txt ~~25.txt , namely has a text file.
i want to randomly select 6 text file among these 25 files.

and i also want to rename randomly selected 6 text file as words1.word ~ words6.word .
# 4  
Old 04-29-2009
Okay, so source.txt has all these lines in it, and you simply want to pick 6 random lines and change them?
# 5  
Old 04-29-2009
you simply want to pick 6 random lines and change them?

not 6random lines
read everyall lines and there is 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt 4.txt 5.txt 6.txt 7.txt 8.txt 9.txt ~~ 22.txt 23.txt 24.txt 25.txt file in every directories
namely about 25 files exist
and i want to randomly select 6 files among 25 files
and rename selected 6 text files as words1.word words2.word words3.word words4.word words5.word words6.word .
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