How do I pick a word at random from a list of words?

[Govind N. Kamat]

In article <19669 at adm.BRL.MIL> bjornand at idt.unit.no (Bjoern Andersen) writes:
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>I need to pick a word from a list in a random sequence. How do I
>achieve that in a csh or sh script?

ksh has a variable called RANDOM, which returns a random value each
time it is accessed.  sh has no equivalent; I don't know about csh.
You could always write a C program to call rand().
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