<oerjan> addquote <kmc> i bet a blog post complaining about ");});});" syntax in JavaScript and comparing it unfavorably to Lisp would get approximately one billion comments on hacker news <Bike> but at what cost? your very \x02soul\x0f, kmc!

#!/bin/sh
cd /var/irclogs/_esoteric
if [ "$1" ]; then
    grep -P -i -- "$1" ????-??-??.txt | shuf -n 1
else
    file=$(shuf -en 1 ????-??-??.txt)
    echo "$file:$(grep "<.*>" $file | shuf -n 1)" | sed "s=<[^>]*> =="
fi