in reply to rtfm
You could also reduce memory overhead (at the expense of more calls to rand) by doing your random keep/toss within the loop:
We're not really tightening our belts, it just feels that way because we're getting fatter.
my $lines = 0; my $selection; foreach my $path (split /:/, $ENV{'PATH'}) { opendir(PATH, $path); while (defined($_ = readdir(PATH))) { if (-f "$path/$_") { ++$lines; $selection = $_ if int(rand($lines)) == 0; } } closedir(PATH) } exec(man => $selection);
We're not really tightening our belts, it just feels that way because we're getting fatter.
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Re^2: rtfm
by dna (Beadle) on Jun 22, 2004 at 18:43 UTC |
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