On Tue 14 May 2024, Thomas L. wrote: > > On Wed, 8 May 2024 23:14:28 -0500 izder456 <izder...@disroot.org> wrote: > > > > I found it as a nice little utility for those who use GNU's shuf, but > > don't want to use GNU stuff cos of licensing or lack of shuf in > > userland. > > there is also `sort -R`.
Just note that unlike GNU's shuf(1), `sort -R` (both OpenBSD's and GNU's) will group equal keys [1]. This can lead to unexpected behaviour if you say want to sample N keys and you expect identical behaviour to shuf(1). Personally, I have a short awk(1) script in ~/bin to replicate shuf(1). [1]: https://man.openbsd.org/sort#R
