shuf

shuf
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Engine	Lua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Operating system	Unix and Unix-like
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	Command
License	coreutils: GNU GPL v3

shuf is a command-line utility included in the textutils package of GNU Core Utilities for creating a standard output consisting of random permutations of the input.

The version of shuf bundled in GNU coreutils was written by Paul Eggert. It is not a part of POSIX.^[1]

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$ ls
Wikibooks  Wikipedia  Wiktionary
$ # Shuffles input 
$ ls | shuf 
Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Wikibooks
$ # Picks one random line from input
$ ls | shuf -n1
Wikipedia

References

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^ shuf(1) – Linux General Commands Manual from ManKier.com

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