Re: vlc broken by redirect

2010-01-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 11:56 -0500, Christian Langer wrote: > I thought that if I sent a music file to vlc in this way, vlc would > play it. So I did cat song.mp3 > /usr/bin/vlc. At this point vlc > stopped working. I looked in /usr/bin and found that vlc had been > turned into a music file! Obvio

Re: vlc broken by redirect

2010-01-13 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 11:56 -0500, Christian Langer wrote: > > > > __ > Hi, I seem to have lost vlc. It was working ok til I tried the > following from http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/iodirection.html. > > "Like I told you b

vlc broken by redirect

2010-01-13 Thread Christian Langer
* * -- Hi, I seem to have lost vlc. It was working ok til I tried the following from http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/iodirection.html. "Like I told you before, files aren't the only places where you can redirect the standard output. You can redirect it to devices, t