VSharapov/randword.sh

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Pick a random word from a dictionary

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randword.sh

	#! /usr/bin/env bash

	WORDFILE="/usr/share/dict/words"
	words=$(cat $WORDFILE \| wc -l)

	r=$(((RANDOM * 32768 + RANDOM)%$words+1))

	sed -n "$r p" $WORDFILE

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