Re: shuffle array

[Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>]

Another alternative is to implement the standard inplace shuffle
algorithm from scratch:

    local -i i
    for ((i = 2; i <= $#l; ++i)); do
      local j=$((RANDOM % i + 1))
      # swap l[i] and l[j]
      local tmp=$l[i]
      l[i]=$l[j]
      l[j]=$tmp
    done

Due to RANDOM having a rather narrow range, this will introduce bias
on large arrays and won't work at all on arrays with more than 32k
elements. These issues can be mitigated by replacing RANDOM with
(RANDOM << 15 | RANDOM) or even with (RANDOM << 30 | RANDOM << 15 |
RANDOM).

Roman.