On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 11:39:42PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'm hereby proposing the inclusion of the attached "stocat" utility to > moreutils. It's like cat, but output lines with a given probability, > defaulting to 10%. It's very useful for random sampling (and *much* > more efficient at that than using "shuf" which is unwieldy on very > large inputs) and, while it can be implemented instead with awk/perl > oneliners, those oneliners aren't very mnemonic and are error prone.
Heya, as I haven't heard back about this, but others have asked me about how to best use stocat, I've now released it as an independent tool here: https://gitlab.com/zacchiro/stocat I'm happy to reconsider if/when it gets integrated into moreutils. Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli . z...@upsilon.cc . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
