Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

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?
>
>   dpkg -l mencoder
>
>   sudo apt-get install mencoder
>
> Bob
>
>
>   
Thanks Bob

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.

A

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