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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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WORDFILE="/usr/share/dict/words"
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NUMWORDS=${1:-5}
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#Number of lines in $WORDFILE
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tL=`awk 'NF!=0 {++c} END {print c}' $WORDFILE`
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for i in `seq $NUMWORDS`
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do
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rnum=$(($RANDOM*$RANDOM))
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let "rnum %= $tL"
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sed -n "$rnum p" $WORDFILE
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done
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