sample: Command line filter for random sampling of input written in C

Bicycle Silhouette

https://github.com/silentbicycle/sample ᔥ

Examples:

sample FILE              # randomly choose & print 4 lines from 
                         # file, in order
input | sample           # same, from stream (file defaults to 
                         # stdin)
sample FILE FILE2 FILE3  # randomly choose 4 lines between 
                         # multiple input files
sample -n 10 FILE        # choose 10 lines
sample -p 10 FILE        # 10% chance of choosing each line
input | sample -p 5      # randomly print 5% of input lines
input | sample -d a,b,c  # append input to files a, b, and c, 
                         # even odds
input | sample -d a,b,c, # append input to files a, b, c, or 
                         # /dev/null