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Created November 25, 2019 15:02
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List 10 random words #bash
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#!/bin/bash
WORDFILE="/usr/share/dict/words"
NUMWORDS=10
#Number of lines in $WORDFILE
tL=`awk 'NF!=0 {++c} END {print c}' $WORDFILE`
for i in `seq $NUMWORDS`; do
rnum=$((RANDOM%$tL+1));
sed -n "$rnum p" $WORDFILE;
done
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