🖥️shuf

➡️This is a command-line reference manual for commands and command combinations that you don’t use often enough to remember it. This cheatsheet explains the shuf command with important options and switches using examples.

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shuf -n5 names.txt
# Pick 5 random lines (names in this case) from a file called names.txt.

ls | shuf 
# Shuffle input - The “shuf” command randomly select lines/files/folder from a file/folder. First list the contents of a folder using ls command.

ls | shuf -n1
# Pick on random selection - Note: You can always replace ‘n1‘ with ‘n2‘ to pick two random selection or any other number of random selection using n3, n4.…

shuf common-words-10k.txt |egrep ".{5,}" |head -64 |xargs -n4
# Generate 16 x 4 random long-word passphrases from a list of common words.

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