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afflictedd2
 PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2011 11:18 am   

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Hi everyone,

I want to shuffle a file with a specific seed, but I don't know
how to do this with /dev/random or /dev/urandom.

So far I have tried:

/sw/lib/coreutils/bin/sort -R --random-source=/dev/urandom file.txt

but this gives a different random order every time. Anyone know of a
way to shuffle a files lines in a specific seeded random order without having
to build a program for it?
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choroba
 PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2011 2:34 am   
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What do you mean by "program"? B-)
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blendmaster345
 PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:50 am   

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he wants to produce the standard sort command
Code:
ls -l | sort -nr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 denton denton  125 2011-11-11 06:47 random
-rwxrwxr-x 1 denton denton 3202 2011-11-10 19:46 colors
-rwxrwxrwx 1 denton denton  175 2011-11-10 18:29 updatesysinfo
-rwx------ 1 denton denton   85 2011-11-09 19:27 sutest
-rwx------ 1 denton denton  826 2011-11-10 17:32 mkhtml
-rwx------ 1 denton denton   58 2011-11-09 19:18 annoying
-rwx------ 1 denton denton   48 2011-11-09 18:50 hello
-rwx------ 1 denton denton  419 2011-11-10 18:35 menutest
-rwx------ 1 denton denton  155 2011-11-10 19:50 nscript
-rwx------ 1 denton denton 1098 2011-11-10 19:08 printfile

and make it display all that in a random order that is the same every time
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choroba
 PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:12 am   
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Just use a file that does not change instead of /dev/urandom.
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jsz
 PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:07 pm   
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afflictedd2 wrote:
but this gives a different random order every time.


It's perfectly normal since you're using /dev/urandom,
which provides random bytes at each run of sort(1).

If you want to shuffle lines the same way every time, then you have to get
the random bytes from /dev/zero, which always provides
the same bytes, i.e. NUL characters.

Code:
sort -R --random-source /dev/zero file.txt
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