Determine ACSII code for a character

printf "%d\n" "'-" #(standard dash)

printf "%d\n" "'–" #(em dash)

return random 3000 lines from a text file

awk 'BEGIN {srand()} {print rand() " " $0}' file8000.txt
    | sort
    | tail -3000
    | sed 's/[^ ]* //'
    >file3000.txt