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RANDOM(6)                    BSD Reference Manual                    RANDOM(6)

N\bNA\bAM\bME\bE
    r\bra\ban\bnd\bdo\bom\bm - random lines from a file or random numbers

S\bSY\bYN\bNO\bOP\bPS\bSI\bIS\bS
    r\bra\ban\bnd\bdo\bom\bm [-\b-e\ber\br] [_\bd_\be_\bn_\bo_\bm_\bi_\bn_\ba_\bt_\bo_\br]

D\bDE\bES\bSC\bCR\bRI\bIP\bPT\bTI\bIO\bON\bN
    R\bRa\ban\bnd\bdo\bom\bm reads lines from the standard input and copies them to the stan-
    dard output with a probability of 1/denominator.  The default value for
    _\bd_\be_\bn_\bo_\bm_\bi_\bn_\ba_\bt_\bo_\br is 2.

    The options are as follows:

    -\b-e\be      If the -\b-e\be option is specified, r\bra\ban\bnd\bdo\bom\bm does not read or write any-
            thing, and simply exits with a random exit value of 0 to
            _\bd_\be_\bn_\bo_\bm_\bi_\bn_\ba_\bt_\bo_\br - 1, inclusive.

    -\b-r\br      The -\b-r\br option guarantees that the output is unbuffered.

S\bSE\bEE\bE A\bAL\bLS\bSO\bO
    fortune(6)

4th Berkeley Distribution       March 31, 1994                               1