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kuonirat on 01/17/13


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Print a random man page

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Useful for a text screen saver if you want to learn sth instead of watching some pointless flickering stuff ;)

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  1. ls /usr/share/man/man1 | sed 's/\([^\.]\+\).*/\1/' | awk 'BEGIN { srand() } { print rand() " " $0 }' | sort -n | awk '{ print $2 }' | head -n 1 | xargs -I{} man -P cat {}

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Posted By: esperanto on February 9, 2013

Nice idea. Much shorter:

find /usr/share/man/man1 | shuf -n1 | xargs man

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