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BOGOSORT(1) General Commands Manual BOGOSORT(1) NAME bogosort - sorts or doesn't sort files or standard input SYNOPSIS bogosort [options] [files] DESCRIPTION bogosort sorts files or its standard input using the bogo-sort algorithm. (I won't even bother to dream up some bogus advantages here.) If any files are given input is taken from files in stead of standard in- put. It can also just randomise the lines in its input, allowing you to perform your own check in a loop. OPTIONS bogosort accepts the following options: -n, --nosort Don't check if the output is sorted, just exit after permuting the lines once. -r, --norandom If configured with support for /dev/(u)random don't try to read /dev/(u)random for seeding rand, ignored otherwise. -s, --seed number Use number to seed rand. -o, --output name Write output to name instead of standard output. -h, --help Show summary of options. -v, --verbose Output a `.' (dot) to standard error for each permutation of the lines, and send some non critical error messages to standard error. -V, --version Show version of program. JARGON FILE ENTRY The following section is taken from the Jargon File. ...The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to bubble sort, which is merely the generic bad algorithm). Bogo-sort is equivalent to re- peatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order. It serves as a sort of canoni- cal example of awfulness. Looking at a program and seeing a dumb algo- rithm, one might say "Oh, I see, this program uses bogo-sort." Esp. appro- priate for algorithms with factorial or super-exponential running time in the average case and probabilistically infinite worst-case running time. Compare bogus, brute force, lasherism... BUGS This program is intentionally bogus. SEE ALSO sort(1), Jargon File <http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/>. AUTHOR Ulrik Haugen <qha@lysator.liu.se>. august 9, 2000 BOGOSORT(1)
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