[ale] Bash question

[Geoffrey]

ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> No. I was asking to be put on the jokes list that is mentioned below.

<Geoffrey goes for more coffee...>

> 
> 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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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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