Re: Command for random? recursive?

[Elijah <desiderata@softhome.net>]

Thanks for those links :) I'll be reading them right away, I think I'll
make some scripts in replacement for those commands. It was my plan
before but I thought if there would be an easier command option to use,
I guess there was none since I can't find any options in the mplayer
manual.
btw, I'm using gnome

Elijah

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 12:38, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:37:31AM +0900, Elijah wrote:
> 
> > 1. How do you perform a command to do things recursively? for example
> > mplayer -vo xv -ao sdl *.mpg doesn't seem to work, also when I'm
> > making zTXT files - mkztxt *.txt
> 
> Take a look at shell scripting.  Some applications natively support the
> type of globbing that you're attempting with the above commands, but
> many don't.  In cases where they don't, you'll need to gather the files
> and feed them to the application.  This can easily be done with a few
> shell script lines.
> 
> A good place to start is:
> 
>    http://www.neoteric.nu/tutorials/bash.html
> and
>    http://www.digitaltoad.net/docs/guide/advshell/
> 
> > 2. Now if I'm now able to do things recursively for mplayer and other
> > commands, is there a way to use that command to randomly select a
> > file?  I figure it would be nice to have mplayer view my clips
> > randomly.
> 
> Again, shell scripting will help you here.
> 
> > 3. Is there a way to re-position the window once it opened? mplayer
> > always shows up in the upper left corner of the screen, which is
> > annoying so what command or option do I need to position it somewhere
> > I like?
> 
> This would greatly depend on your window manager.  Which window manager
> are you using?
> 
> -- 
> Jamin W. Collins