Re: Looping a script

[John H Darrah]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

> 
> a) If I do 'ls -AQU *.mp3', the result is always sorted.
>    However, if I just do 'ls -AQU' it's not sorted.
> 


This little script should give you a randomized selection of
the MP3's.


-- cut --

#!/bin/bash

let m=32768 n=0

while:
do
    set *.mp3
    shift $(( ($#*RANDOM) / (m+1) ))
    [ ${n%$#} ] && amp -p $1
    let n=$#
done

-- cut --



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