[ale] Bash question

[ChangingLINKS.com]

No. I was asking to be put on the jokes list that is mentioned below.

Drew

On Thursday 05 September 2002 11:47, you wrote:
> ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > Put email at ChangingLINKS.com on the list please . . . . : )
>
> Drew, if you're requesting to add a new email address or change your
> existing subscription info, you can locate info on the
> http://www.ale.org site to accomplish this.
>
> Understand, that it's virtually impossible for any one person to handle
> such manual requests.
>
> > On Thursday 05 September 2002 11:06, Fletch wrote:
> >>>>>>>"esoteric" == esoteric  <Geoffrey> writes:
> >>
> >>    esoteric> Understanding that this was originally a bash question,
> >>    esoteric> I'd suggest Perl is really the proper tool.  I'm just
> >>    esoteric> waiting for Fletch to chime in here... :)
> >>
> >>
> >>        Well, if you're going to twist my arm . . .
> >>
> >>
> >>perl -e '$/="=*\n";while(<>){rand($.)<1&&do{chomp;$l=$_}}print$l' data
> >>
> >>
> >>        That presumes that the "=*\n" delimiter follows items (yours
> >>basically had it preceding it, so you get an empty first record).
> >>It's basically the same format as fortune data files (which use "%\n"
> >>instead; see man strfile, man fortune; replacing "=*\n" with "%\n"
> >>gives you a poor man's fortune replacement).  As for an explanation
> >>what it's doing, see perldoc -q 'random line'.
> >>
> >>
> >>        Not that I in any way condone automatically sending people
> >>jokes via email.  Come on, it's not the late 1980s any more. :)

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Wishing you Happiness, Joy and Laughter,
Drew
http://www.ChangingLINKS.com

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