manipulate dcop data for File commandS?

carl0ski · 07-02-2005, 09:55 AM

Hi
i'm trying to grab the data from this dcop command and manipulate it in the command line
make symlinks, copy move the files etc

Quote:

dcop amarok player path

is the command to view the Path of current song

Quote:

/mnt/music/Artist/Album/Track01.ogg

but i can't figure how i can use this data in a script

i've tried
cp "dcop amarok player path" /home/carl0ski/

/mnt/music/Artist/Album/Track01.ogg > %song
cp %song /home/carl0ski/

#!/bin/bash
ln -s $1 /home/carl0ski/Desktop/music/

sh ./copysongscript.sh %song

but all create a text file called %song with the file name contained, not a physical copy of the file

.

thanks

carl.waldbieser · 07-02-2005, 11:49 AM

I am not *exactly* sure what you are trying to do, but it looks like you want to have a script that when you run it copies the current playing song to your home directory?

The version of amarok I am using does not support the "dcop amarok player path" command, but assuming that works fine for your version, the following bash script should work-- I obviously cannot test it for bugs, though:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

##################################
# Copies currently playing amarok song to my home
# directory.
##################################

cp "$(dcop amarok player path)" ~

carl0ski · 07-02-2005, 08:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by carl.waldbieser
I am not *exactly* sure what you are trying to do, but it looks like you want to have a script that when you run it copies the current playing song to your home directory?

The version of amarok I am using does not support the "dcop amarok player path" command, but assuming that works fine for your version, the following bash script should work-- I obviously cannot test it for bugs, though:

Code:

#!/bin/bash ################################## # Copies currently playing amarok song to my home # directory. ################################## cp "$(dcop amarok player path)" ~

i mainly wanted to easily rename certain songs, maybe fixiup permission errors on some that prevent tags being written

because once i figure out how to do this i can figure out how to rename files to suit the tag eventually

thank you.

example

cp "$(dcop amarok player path)" ~/Desktop/music/"$(dcop amarok player artist)"\ -\ "$(dcop amarok player title)".mp3