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		minikomi on May 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OS X Command Line Utilities Just mucking around, came up with this: `wc -l < /usr/share/dict/words \| xargs -I {} jot -r {} 100000 \| paste -d " " - /usr/share/dict/words \| sort \| awk '{print $2 "! "}' \| say`

pavel_lishin on May 15, 2014 [–]

If you install coreutils (`brew install coreutils`), you can cut that down a bit:

    gshuf /usr/share/dict/words | head -n 10 | awk '{print $1 "! "}' | say

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