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Generates random words in an infinite 1Hz loop
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randomwords.sh
WORDFILE="/usr/share/dict/words"
NUMWORDS=1
#Number of lines in $WORDFILE
tL=`awk 'NF!=0 {++c} END {print c}' $WORDFILE`
while :
do
rnum=$((RANDOM%$tL+1))
sed -n "$rnum p" $WORDFILE
sleep 1
done
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