Posted by Martin Mandl - m2m tech support on 01/05/07 07:26

If you have access to system commands you could try the following:

1) Get the number of files using something like: ls | wc
2) Use your random generator
3) Now pick your line e.g. for file # 123: ls | head -123 | tail -1

Have fun


howa wrote:
> for example, there are 10K files in the directory,
>
> given that i don't know if files name, is it possible to fetch a file
> randomly?
>
> thanks.

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