NAME

shuf — print contents shuffled

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

shuf reads each file in sequence and writes it on the standard output with some shuffling applied to each line. If no file is given or if file is "-", shuf reads from the standard input.

OPTIONS

-e

Use each string as an input line.

-n num

Output at most num lines.

-z

Use NULL as line delimiter, not newline.

EXIT STATUS

The shuf utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

HISTORY

An shuf utility appeared in GNU coreutils 6.0.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>