Apple - Install shuf on OS X?
You can install coreutils with brew install coreutils
.
shuf
will be linked as gshuf
. Read the caveats when you install coreutils.
Yet another solution is to learn about the tools supplied by the vendor. Certainly you could chain jot
, paste
, sort
, cut
, head
and get the same results.
jot -r "$(wc -l FILE)" 1 |
paste - FILE |
sort -n |
cut -f 2- |
head -n 10
- jot produces a random number from 1 to the number of lines in FILE for each line
- paste pastes the random number to each line in FILE
- sort sorts numeric each line
- cut removes the random number from each line
- head outputs the first 10 lines
You can install coreutils with Macports as
sudo port install coreutils
This will put GNU core utils in /opt/local/bin with a g prepended
e.g. gshuf
More details on the package coreutils.