Dave Wreski wrote:
>
> > However, this will play the files sequentially, in (sorted) order. I
> > want it to be randomized, like the output of 'ls -AQU'
>
> while [ 1 ]
> do
> for mp3 in `/bin/ls -AQU *.mp3`
> do
> amp -p $mp3
> done
> done
>
see if this helps. When passed a filename that contains a list of
filenames it will return a random line from the file:
you could do something like:
while true
do
amp -p `random_line.sh filelist`
done
snip between the *** lines, copy to random_line.sh and you should be
good to go. I had a randomization question a while back and the guys on
the shell.scripting list came up with this so I can't take credit for it
:-)
*************************** random_line.sh *******************
#!/bin/bash
##
## Name:
## random_line.sh
##
## Version:
## $Revision: 1.2 $
##
## Purpose:
## Print a random line from a specified file.
##
## Usage:
## random_line.sh <filename>
##
## Author:
## Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
##
[ "$#" = "0" ] && {
echo "usage: random_line.sh <filename>"
exit -1
}
[ ! -f "$1" ] && {
echo "$1: No such file."
exit -2
}
# Get number of lines in file.
_LINES=$(wc -l < $1)
# Pick a random line number.
_RANDOM_LINE=$(( $RANDOM % $_LINES + 1 ))
# Deliver a single line of output.
head -n $_RANDOM_LINE < $1 | tail -n 1
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