The other problem of course may simply be that you are launching a GUI from a command line, remember the commandline has to wait for the GUI to close until it can move on to the next file in the loop (possibly why you have to CTRL+C each time to move to the next one. Backgrounding (adding a $ to the end of the command) may not work either as you may end up with all the movies playing simultaneously in several instances of vlc player.
The way I use to put files in an array like that is as I posted before: *folder=/home/stu/test files=`ls $folder`* but as always in linux there is more than one way to skin a cat, if your way is already working, leave it as it is, been thinking it may just be the command line waiting for the GUI to close before it can play the next file, not sure how you'd get around that. On 1 January 2012 19:33, Richard Forth <richard.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stuart, > > Try this > > *folder=/home/stu/test > files=`ls $folder`* > for f in $files > do > if [ -f $f ] # check to see if $f is a file > then > echo $f is a file! > echo "Processing $f file..." > vlc $f > else > echo $f is not a file! > continue # do nothing with the file; starts the next iteration.. > fi > done > > On 1 January 2012 15:49, Stuart Bird <e_tect...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> FILES=/home/stu/test/* > > >
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