#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict; # always use strict
use Carp;
my @file;
my $file;

# instaed of srand simply chose randomly from the number of your sort 
+methods
my $sorttype = int(rand(2));
my @methods = ("sort","reverse sort");

# better leave output to cgi.pm I'd suggest
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

# f.w.u. ??
my $n=1;

# your dir including path to it relative to this scripts path
my $dir = "../random/";

#read the dir and put all files to a list
# even if above sample using glob looks also interesting :-)
opendir DIR, $dir || die "blah!";
my @allfiles = readdir DIR;
close DIR;

# remove those files from list that don't seem to be html
my @randomlist = grep /.?\.(s||p)?html?/i, @allfiles;

# here specify your sort method for the remaining files
my $do = $methods[$sorttype]." ".'@randomlist;';
@randomlist = eval($do);


#start output
foreach $file (@randomlist)
{
    my $tmp = $dir.$file;
    open (FILE, "<$tmp")|| die "failed";
    @file = <FILE>;
    print (@file);
    close(FILE)
}

#thats it
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