On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:22 AM Salvo Tomaselli <tipos...@tiscali.it> wrote:
> Well you can replace with this one > > fortune $(dpkg --listfiles fortunes-it | grep > /usr/share/games/fortunes/ | egrep -v .dat\|.u8 | shuf -n1) Not quite the same. With the `shuf` you end up getting a fortune from a random file in the package. My way should choose any random fortune from all the files. The latter is a uniform sampling of the fortunes. The former oversamples fortunes from small files and undersamples from large files. Your way should be faster, but I don't find performance to be an issue. Each is fine, but I prefer the completely uniform approach. Thanks for looking at my issue. -- Anthony Foglia
