Re: new coreutil? shuffle - randomize file contents

[James Youngman]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:55:35AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:

> That way, you could use, e.g.:
> 
>   sort -k 2,2 -k R
> 
> which would mean "sort by the 2nd field, but if there are ties then
> sort the ties randomly".  "sort -R" would be short for "sort -k R".

Perhaps this approach avoids the problems that were discussed earlier
regarding expectations about lines with identical keys "shuffling"
together.


James.