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+.\" Copyright (c) 1994
+.\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\"	California, Berkeley and its contributors.
+.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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+.\"    without specific prior written permission.
+.\"
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+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\"     @(#)random.6	8.2 (Berkeley) 3/31/94
+.\"
+.Dd March 31, 1994
+.Dt RANDOM 6
+.Os BSD 4
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm random
+.Nd random lines from a file or random numbers
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm random
+.Op Fl er
+.Op Ar denominator
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm Random
+reads lines from the standard input and copies them to the standard
+output with a probability of 1/denominator.
+The default value for
+.Ar denominator
+is 2.
+.Pp
+The options are as follows:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl e
+If the
+.Fl e
+option is specified,
+.Nm random
+does not read or write anything, and simply exits with a random
+exit value of 0 to
+.Ar denominator
+\&- 1, inclusive.
+.It Fl r
+The
+.Fl r
+option guarantees that the output is unbuffered.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr fortune 6