NAME

       dr_permutate - print randomly permutated arguments or stdin

SYNOPSIS

       dr_permutate arguments dr_permutate

DESCRIPTION

       When called with arguments, dr_permutate returns its arguments in randomly permutated
       order, space separated.  When called without any arguments, dr_permuate expects a line-
       oriented file on stdin.  It returns the contents of this file, with lines randomly
       permutated.

EXAMPLE

       Running

        $ dr_permutate foo bar baz

       could return

        bar foo baz

       .  Running

        $ cat <<EOF | dr_permutate
        foo
        bar
        baz

       could return

        bar
        foo
        baz

       .

HISTORY

       This script was initially written on 2001-05-06.

BUGS

       When called without any arguments, stdin is read in core entirely.

       The GNU coreutils utility shuf(1) implements the same functionality in a better way,
       you're probably better off using that.

SEE ALSO

       http://packages.debian.org/randomize-lines

       unsort(1), by Wessel Dankers.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright: (c) 2001 Joost van Baal

       This script is in the public domain.

AUTHOR

       Joost van Baal <joostvb@mdcc.cx>