also sprach Thomas J. Hamman (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 11:58:32AM -0400): > What exactly is this for? You could use fortune and strfile. Make the > text file with a % symbol between each selection, like this:
a list of albums that i have on mp3 format. and the desire to have a script that plays albums randomly -- not a random song off any album, but a random album from beginning to end the strfile method is plausible, but i'd much rather work with the file that i have rather than autogenerate another one. and the file i got doesn't have any %'s. > That's what I do to get randomized quotes in my signature, so if that's > the type of thing you have in mind, I recommend it. that's the way i do that too. > If you don't want to do it the fortune way, you could do it in about one > line of Python after importing the random and linecache modules: > > from random import * > from linecache import * > print getline('~/.muttrc',randrange(1,20)) except that hardcodes the file length, does it not? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- this site has moved. we'd tell you where, but then we'd have to delete you.