Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:08:36 -0800 From: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> To: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> Cc: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: randomising tracks: scripting question Message-ID: <61895BE3-5435-4515-A439-F1C2273B93CB@vicor.com> In-Reply-To: <20101226190217.GA69973@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <20101226170930.GA68817@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20101226174043.GB10951@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20101226180145.7eae6855@gumby.homeunix.com> <20101226190217.GA69973@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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On Dec 26, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Frank Shute wrote: > 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. > Just keep in mind that random(6) comes from the `games' distribution-set. wget -r ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/games cd games sudo ./install.sh Not sure if it's available anywhere else. -- Devinhelp
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