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Why does shuf implement its own random number generator? Why isn't /dev/urandom the default?
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-rando...
icebraining
on July 25, 2017
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shuf is not a crypto tool, and the GNU coreutils are written to be cross-platform, even where /dev/urandom doesn't exist, or is unreliable. That's my guess, at least.
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