On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:14:44PM -0600, chris wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:48:50PM -0600, Matthew Seeds wrote:
> > mpg123 --list <(find /home/mtseeds/Music/ -name '*.mp3')
>  
> somehow i doubt this scales.  how large is your playlist?  i've got
> ~5k songs in mine and i've yet to find a shell/OS that would allow me
> to pass them all in argv[] without getting the error "argument list
> too long".

<() creates a pseudo file, which has limitations (no backwards seeks).
It differs from $() or `` which substitute their output.  It is
available in bash and probably others; I do not know if it is a POSIX
feature.

-- 
Andrew Gaul
http://gaul.org/
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