On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:40:43 -0800 Chip Camden <[email protected]> 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, > > > > -- > > > > Frank > > > > Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[email protected]" > > 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 -") _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
