On 5/26/11, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hmm. How do you "buffer linewise"? I knew that everything worked fine on sane ttys, but I just don't understand how FIFOs are buffered and thus not what happened if you tried to read from a pipe with less than 512 bytes written to it. I'm back on Linux, and it seems to Just Work(tm), so just ignore it.
P.S. There was a typo in my previous email, here is the script as to be run inside a single bash session. Drop the &/dev/null& if you run this in a separate terminal. Killing mplayer will skip to the next song. For anything more fancy, you'll probably want to connect a FIFO to xargs' input. find -type f -print0 | shuf -z | xargs -0n1 mplayer -slave -quiet &>/dev/null&
