[ale] Bash question

[danscox at mindspring.com (Danny Cox)]

Andrew,

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 10:01, Andrew Grimmke wrote:
> How about this, or am I on the wrong track?
> 
>   cut -d'=*' -f$RANDOM

	Well, yeah, if you want to do it all at once! ;-)  I thought the main
idea was to learn bash stuff!

	Besides, if the file is 100 jokes long, and $RANDOM returns anything
greater than 100, you get nothing.  You'll still have to do a modulo
divide in there.

	Also, I just checked, the -d option to cut only uses the FIRST char in
the string you give it.

	Close, though.

-- 
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medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny


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