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Re: Enhancement Requests: Add a seed value option to sort and shuf
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Enhancement Requests: Add a seed value option to sort and shuf |
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Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:03:19 -0700 |
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On 11/20/2013 10:29 AM, Thomas Müller wrote:
> Hi,
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> I would appreciate if sort (and shuf) had an option to specify a seed
> value that could be set during random sort in order to always get the
> same permutation of an input file.
Already present. See sort --random-source=/path/to/file where
/path/to/file contains the seed. Similarly for shuf
--random-source=/path/to/file.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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