randomising tracks: scripting question

[Chip Camden]

Quoth Frank Shute on Sunday, 26 December 2010:
> I generally play my tracks of an album like so:
> 
> for track in $(cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u); do
> mplayer $track
> done
> 
> They then play in the correct order.
> 
> How would I go about randomising the order of play using
> sh (preferably) or perl?
> 
> Sorry for the OT posting but I thought a brainteaser might clear the
> fog caused by excessive Xmas indulgence ;)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> 
>  Frank
> 
>  Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
> 
> 
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change "cat t...n.m3u" to "random < t..n.m3u"

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