[ale] Bash question

[Geoffrey]

Understanding that this was originally a bash question, I'd suggest Perl 
is really the proper tool.  I'm just waiting for Fletch to chime in 
here... :)

Danny Cox wrote:
> 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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