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Date:      Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:42:12 -0400
From:      Mike Hauber <m.hauber@mchsi.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Playing .au sound files
Message-ID:  <200409112342.12403.m.hauber@mchsi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200409121304.54335.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
References:  <200409121304.54335.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>

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On Saturday 11 September 2004 11:34 pm, Malcolm Kay 
proclaimed:
> I'm looking for a command line utility to play .au
> sound files.
>
> The sound system seems to work. I can play .au
> files successfully through kaboodle on kde but
> this is rather an overkill (and I don't normally run
> kde).
>
> Surely there is a simple utility to take a .au file
> and spit it out as sound. I've looked through the ports
> (and installed a number) but not yet found what I'm
> looking for - or I've failed to use them correctly.
>
> Malcolm
>

try the cat command...

IE$ cat sound_file.au > /dev/audio

Mike



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