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Is there a program or .bat that will open a random file in the current folder?

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You could probably write a script that built a list of files in a folder, and picked a random number to select an element from the list. But why? – BillN Jul 1 '10 at 23:59
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To what point ? – ldigas Jul 2 '10 at 0:00
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You could open the folder and then close your eyes while holding the down arrow until it feels right and then press enter. – pattern86 Sep 4 '10 at 23:17
there is %RANDOM%, SET /A and FOR - that should be enough to loop over files in a folder until the random counter reaches zero. Using PowerShell is a lot more comfortable, though :) – mihi Nov 29 '10 at 23:25
I can see how this type of thing would be useful. I'm on Linux, and I wrote a script a while back that randomly descends from the current directory until it hits a file. I wrote it to pick a random song from my music collection. – Joey Adams Mar 5 '11 at 7:27
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closed as too localized by Tom Wijsman, random♦ Aug 27 '11 at 18:15

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