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shuf: add --all-permutations option

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: 15055 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15055: shuf --all-permutations
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:01:27 +0800

(info "(coreutils) shuf invocation") says

   These examples all have four input lines, so `shuf' might produce any
   of the twenty-four possible permutations of the input.  In general, if
   there are N input lines, there are N! (i.e., N factorial, or N * (N -
   1) * ... * 1) possible output permutations.

Please add an option to produce all permutations.

Perhaps separated by blank lines or a --separator=...

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