okay, here goes... I am making a script that will help me automate conversion of movies to other formats. I'm trying to set a variable $CROP and I'm trying to pull info from a text file created by mplayer to get the black lines off of the movie. Here is the script:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh mplayer -v -ss 00:15:00 -frames 20 -vf cropdetect dvd://1 > crop.txt export CROP=`tail -n 11 crop.txt | grep CROP | cut -d= -f2 | cut -c 1-11` echo $CROP ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- now, the text file creates text, and I've used the "tail - grep - cut - cut" command on the command line and was able to get the data I needed. Also on the command line, I can export the variable (I do it all the time with PKG_PATH). When I run the script, the crop.txt is created, and the variable prints out $CROP, but after the script ends, I attempt to "echo $CROP" and the variable is empty... Is there something I'm missing? Or is there nothing wrong, and the script (while running) knows the value of $CROP, value of $CROP is dropped once the script terminates. Regards, Bryan _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
