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.TH "randcon" 1 "June 5, 2003"
.SH NAME
randcon \- simple randomshuffle of text
.SH SYNOPSIS
.PP
randcon is able to take a bunch of textlines and create a randomized version of that textlines\. randcon is able to save the output in a textfile or into a csv\-file which could be easaly imported into a spreadsheet\-program as excel or any other whatever the user likes to use\.
.SH INPUT
.PP
there a 3 ways to give randcon input: standardinput, a file or automaticly filled up data\.
.PP
the default datasource is the standardinput\. so one has either to type in all the data by hand or use a pipe\.
.PP
pipe\-example (unix): ls \-1 | randcon \-n 20
.PP
pipe\-example (win32): dir /o | randcon\.exe \-n 20
.PP
to read lines from a file, one has to define this file with the \-o \- flag\.
.PP
inputfile: randcon \-i mydata\.txt \-n 20
.PP
and on could create some data with some magicfoo\. just use the \-m and \-M flags and dont forget the \-f\. the default datastring would be "rand" followed by the given numbers, but one could easaly define an own prefix for the stuff\.
.PP
example: randcon\.exe \-m 5 \-M 10 \-p foo \-f
.PP
this will create and randomize foo5, foo6, foo7, foo8, foo9 and foo10\.
.SH OUTPUT
.PP
there are also 2 ways to handle the output from randcon\. either use the standardoutput or save it in a file\. if one wants to use the data in other program which could read \.csv\-files (comma\-separated), then just \-t csv and everything will be done for you :)\. if per default randcon will display the input\-data\. if one doesnt want to display the inputdata, use the \-D / \-\-dont\-display\-input flag\.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI "\-s, \-\-seperator" " "
.PD 0
the seperator used in csv\-files
.PD
.TP
.B "\-D, \-\-dont\-display\-input"
.PD 0
dont display the input in the output
.PD
.TP
.BI "\-d, \-\-distribution" " "
.PD 0
uniform|uni|u : uniform distribution from 0\-n
.PD

exponential|exp|e : exponential distribution from 0\-n
.PD
.TP
.B "\-f, \-\-fill"
.PD 0
create \'input\' from prefixmin to prefixmax
.PD
.TP
.BI "\-i, \-\-input" " "
.PD 0
name of the inputfile, if none, read from stdin
.PD
.TP
.BI "\-M, \-\-max" " "
.PD 0
maximum of suffix
.PD
.TP
.BI "\-m, \-\-min" " "
.PD 0
minimum of suffix
.PD
.TP
.BI "\-n, \-\-number" " "
.PD 0
number of randomizations
.PD
.TP
.BI "\-o, \-\-output" " "
.PD 0
name of the outputfile
.PD
.TP
.BI "\-t, \-\-output\-type" " "
.PD 0
txt : pure and plain text
.PD

csv : comma seperated values
.PD
.TP
.BI "\-p, \-\-prefix" " "
.PD 0
prefix for the sample
.PD
.TP
.B "\-v, \-\-version"
.PD 0
print the version infomation for plnsplime and then exit\.
.PD
.SH BUGS
.PP
please report any bugs to <gumz@cs\.uni\-magdeburg\.de>
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Mathias Gumz <gumz@cs\.uni\-magdeburg\.de>