[SOLVED] Re: Importing mencoder into a bash script

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

Bob Proulx wrote:
> andy wrote:
>   
> > 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.
> >     
>
> Hmm...  Okay.  Then let's debug why.  Try this scriptlet:
>
>   #!/bin/sh
>   ls -ld /usr/bin/mencoder
>   type mencoder
>   echo PATH=$PATH
>   dpkg -l mencoder | grep mencoder
>   dpkg -L mencoder | grep /bin/
>   exit 0
>
> What does it say?  On one of my Etch systems it says:
>
>   -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4107292 2007-06-19 00:42 /usr/bin/mencoder
>   mencoder is /usr/bin/mencoder
>   PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
>   ii  mencoder       1.0-pre7-0.0   MPlayer's Movie Encoder
>   /usr/bin/mencoder
>
> My guess is that on your system it is installed someplace special and
> so is in your PATH when called from your shell but not on PATH when
> you are trying to run the script.
>
> Bob
>
>
>   
Bob, Florian & others

I owe you each an apology for wasting your time. After I had reinstalled 
my system I was convinced that I had installed it as part of the mplayer 
package. However, running Bob's scriptlet demonstrated that I hadn't 
done so, and so I have now fixed that problem which now fixes the 
original problem.

My bad - and sorry about that!!

Thanks for your helpful suggestions.

A

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