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From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Subject: Re: Sorting file names randomly
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 06:44:15AM +0000, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> A more efficient way might be this:
> 
>     function shuffle {
>       emulate -L zsh
>       declare -A h
>       local +h -Z 5 RANDOM=$SECONDS
>       integer i
>       # set -- $~*   # uncomment to use with noglob alias
>       for ((i=1; i <= $#; ++i)) { h[$i.$RANDOM]=$argv[i] }
>       reply=( $h )
>       print -l $reply
>     }

Is there any chance that prepending "$i." and hashing it will
decrease the randomness of the shuffle significantly?