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listen to random music with afplay
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| brew install gshuf |
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| find *.mp3 | gshuf -n 1 | tr '\0\n' '\n\0' | xargs -0 afplay |
if necessary just install the missing gshuf package on your mac
very useful!
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gshuf is an alternative to sort -R and identical to the unix common shuf command. each gshuf command comes with g prefix. gshuf is needed because osx is shipped without sort -R and the shuf command.