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<a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/09/08/use-powershell-to-pick-random-winning-users-from-text.aspx" rel="ugc">This</a> might be your ticket. I've modified it a bit for you. You'll need a &quot;websites.txt&quot; file containing your sites:<br />
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<pre><code id="code-20-40278981-1">$Sites = Get-Content C:\websites.txt

$hash = @{}

foreach ($Site in $Sites)
{
    $hash.add($u,(Get-Random -Maximum $Sites.count))
} #end foreach

$PickedSite = $hash.GetEnumerator() | Sort-Object -Property value | Select-Object -First 1

start $PickedSite</code></pre>
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I haven't tested this. Let me know if it works.
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This [http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/09/08/use-powershell-to-pick-random-winning-users-from-text.aspx] might be your ticket. I've modified it a bit for you. You'll need a "websites.txt" file containing your sites:



$Sites = Get-Content C:\websites.txt

$hash = @{}

foreach ($Site in $Sites)
{
    $hash.add($u,(Get-Random -Maximum $Sites.count))
} #end foreach

$PickedSite = $hash.GetEnumerator() | Sort-Object -Property value | Select-Object -First 1

start $PickedSite


I haven't tested this. Let me know if it works.

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&quot;start <a href="http://www.microsoft.com" rel="ugc nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com</a>&quot;&nbsp;launches a website from the command line. What should I do to launch a randomly selected website from a predefined pool?
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"start http://www.microsoft.com" launches a website from the command line. What should I do to launch a randomly selected website from a predefined pool?

launching a random website from the command line

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Windows Batch

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