Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:23:12 +0100, andy wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
>> andy wrote:
>>   
>>> mencoder: command not found
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if I need to explicitly set my path in the script file in 
>>> order to call this function.
>>
>> Uhm, mencoder, when installed, lives in /usr/bin/mencoder.  Perhaps
>> you have not installed it?

[...]

> No - it is definitely installed - I've used it on the cli plenty of times. 
> I am interested in finding out how I am to call it from within a bash 
> script, because simply putting mencoder <options> <file> in the bash script 
> isn't working.
>
> I'm not a programmer, so I can guarantee that this is a case of PEBCAK, but 
> I am not clear on how to resolve it.

I am joining mid-thread, so I might misunderstand the problem, but why
don't you just use the full path, i.e.

/usr/bin/mencoder <options> <file>

in your script? (Or are you worried about portability?)

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