Below is a (non-finished) script that trys to run a linux viewer called eog (eye of gnome) in a script that will eventually allow me to power thru long lists of image files and rename them as I go.
The idea was a cmdline tool that would pop up a view of each image then query user for new name. Kill that process and move on to next item in list. I couldn't think of any better way than to query `ps' for the pid and run `kill' on it. However even that isn't working. But I wondered if there is a better way of doing this that is still fairly basic? #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w $question = "New name please => "; $ext=shift; $ls_proc = "ls *.$ext"; open(LS_PROC," $ls_proc|"); while(<LS_PROC>){ chomp; push @ls_array,$_; } for(@ls_array){ $pic = $_; system("eog $pic &"); print $question; chomp ($newname = <STDIN>); print "<$newname>\n"; qx(cp -a $pic "$newname.$ext"); ## rename $_ "$newname.$ext"; open(PS_PROC,"ps wwaux|"); while(<PS_PROC>){ chomp; if($_ =~ /^$ENV{LOGNAME}.*eog.*\.jpg$/){ my $line = $_; print "hpdb \$line = $line\n"; <STDIN>; $pid = (split(/\s+/,$line))[1]; print "hpdb \$pid = $pid\n"; <STDIN>; print "kill -15 on $pid?\n"; $ans = <STDIN>; if ($ans eq "y"){ print "Killing -15 on pid <$pid>\n"; qx(kill -15 $pid); } } } close(PS_PROC); } close(LS_PROC); -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]