Dear Joey, Stefano suggested the inclusion of his 'stocat' (see below) tool into moreutils. I think the simple script is a great idea and I would like to see it in the moreutils collection. What do you think? Might you consider to adopt it?
Kind regards, Nicolas On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 02:38:55PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > 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 » -- epost: nico...@fjasle.eu irc://oftc.net/nsc ↳ gpg: 18ed 52db e34f 860e e9fb c82b 7d97 0932 55a0 ce7f -- frykten for herren er opphav til kunnskap --
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