Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I need to produce A LOT of test data for a testing environment I've been told to look after. Should have stayed at home this week

As it is for testing and probable sending to vendors I can't use real data (customer details).

My wish list to Sanata is to have a number of flat files that have customer details I've made up (like below)

From within my script I'll select at random a line to ues in populating my test records.

So, is there a simple way of randomly pulling a line from a given file?



File 1
mr smith, the house, the street, the country, the postcode
mr doe, his house, his stree, his country, his postcode

File 2
02081231456
02086568989
01628565555
07856877777

Cheers, Neil

something like this,

Code:

sed -n $(( $RANDOM %`cat inputfile | wc -l` + 1))'p' inputfile