#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my(%hash,$i); @hash{map($i++.":$_", <>)} = (); print "$_\n" for map /^\d+:(.*)/, keys %hash;
NB: the $i++ and regex trickery is necessary to preserve identical lines.

Update: Since the above code will produce the same "randomized" file every time you run it with the same input data:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my(%hash,$i); @hash{map join(":", $i++, int rand $i, $_), <>} = (); print "$_\n" for map /^\d+:\d+:(.*)/, keys %hash;
Which I guess was not the point, since we're back to using rand()
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In reply to Re^2: Mixing Up a Text File by Aristotle
in thread Mixing Up a Text File by Anonymous Monk

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