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Re:Interesting commands for the Linux shell by xearl on Saturday September 16, 2017 @05:44PM (#15266916)
Sorting by hash will always cluster lines with equal content together, whereas true randomisation won't.

Eg `(seq 3; seq 3; seq 3) | sort -R`.

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