Re: Suggestion for 'sort' command

[Eric Blake]

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According to Antonio Jara on 2/14/2006 11:06 AM:
> i'm not (yet) a developer. I'd like to be able to implementate this
> idea, but I've looked into sort.c and I felt completely lost. It would
> be nice that sort had an option to sort randomly the input, to do, for
> example, things like
> $ mplayer `ls music/* | sort --random`
> from console.

This already exists in CVS head (will become coreutils 6.0):

$ sort --version | head -n 1
sort (GNU coreutils) 6.0-cvs
$ sort --help | grep random
  -R, --random-sort           sort by random hash of keys
      --seed=STRING         seed random hash function with STRING

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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