Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:02:17 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: randomising tracks: scripting question Message-ID: <20101226190217.GA69973@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101226180145.7eae6855@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20101226170930.GA68817@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20101226174043.GB10951@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20101226180145.7eae6855@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 06:01:45PM +0000, RW wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:40:43 -0800 > Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com> wrote: > > > Quoth Frank Shute on Sunday, 26 December 2010: > > > I generally play my tracks of an album like so: > > > > > > for track in $(cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u); do > > > mplayer $track > > > done > > > > > > They then play in the correct order. > > > > > > How would I go about randomising the order of play using > > > sh (preferably) or perl? > > > > > > Sorry for the OT posting but I thought a brainteaser might clear the > > > fog caused by excessive Xmas indulgence ;) > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > change "cat t...n.m3u" to "random < t..n.m3u" > > > > That should be > > random -f trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u > > see random(6) for what happens when it reads directly from stdin > (without "-f -") > Excellent. I didn't know about random(6), I was getting lost in the manpages: there are manpages for random in 3 different sections! Should have used apropos. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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