[PATCH] Makes sort create random order

[Thomas Habets]

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Yes, random order. That's not a bit oxymoronic.

Why "sort randomly" you ask? Well, let's say you have a bunch of test-data,
one per line (where "a bunch" is millions, and "millions" is, oh, 2.6
million).

Let's then say these line of data, as they are now, were generated
sequentially, and you want to fetch them randomly, one at a time. All. And no
duplicates.

So, added -R, --random.
I also shamelessly added myself to THANKS.

Note that I use rand() and srand(), if that matters on some OS.

Be good.

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