brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (11/27/88)
[Agreed. But since when has that stopped anyone? ++bsa]
I thought it was a bit overblown. What it describes can be easily done
with a trivial shell script, and this short program that I wrote, which
I use to have the cron pick a random joke from my joke queues.
pick.c:
main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
long time();
srand( (unsigned int)time( (long *)0 ) );
if( argc > 1 && strcmp(argv[1],"*") )
printf( "%s\n", argv[ 1 + (rand() % (argc-1)) ] );
}
You say something like
p `pick ~/.screens/*`
to get the same effect.
Hardly even worth posting...