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Created February 22, 2011 22:02
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print a random line from a file
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randomline.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
open FH, $ARGV[0] or die;
@lines = <FH>;
print @lines[int(rand(scalar @lines))] . "\n";
close FH;
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