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Subject: Re: Anyway to randomize sig files?
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From: bgriffin@ic.sunysb.edu (Eli the bearded)
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Note cross posting.

In article <3csckl$bru@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
knassen@cochrane.bus.umich.edu (Kent Stefl Nassen) writes:
>>*] >        Can someone tell me if there is a way to randomize sig files?
>Here is a perl script I grabbed from somewhere.  It was originally set
>up to put random one-line quotes in your .sig, but I modified it to
>just randomize a group of .sig files.  Very simple.  I use it with pine
>by aliasing pine to 'randsig; pine'.  Then, whenever pine is run, you
>will get a random sig.  You can use the same aliasing trick for other
>programs, assuming your shell allows aliases.

	#!/location/of/perl
	
	$home = "/your/home/directory";
	srand(time|$$);
	@files = <$home/sigs/*>;
	$this = $files[rand(@files)];
	
	`cp $this $home/.signature`;
	
Anybody either have or can quickly modify this to
be more friendly to the inode-imparied? My site has the
absurd idea that I should only have 800 files. At this
moment I am about 100 away from the limit. Lots of extra
files will not help. Putting all the files in a cpio or
ar archive would be great. Creating a new file format for
this is fine as well.

Elijah
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has yet to learn perl