Help with Bash scripts

greengrocer · 06-04-2009, 08:55 AM

OK so if the line in the file looks like this:

/home/user/kelly.mpg#volume:100

then

Code:

eval xine ${LINE}

will work.

The advantage of splitting the line into $LINE and $VOL actually has the benefit of not having to put \ in front of spaces for file names that have spaces in the text file. So splitting could still be an attractive option. But theoretically what I am wanting to do is almost reality now.

greengrocer · 06-04-2009, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by druuna

It is still not clear from your answer if you tried the eval command

Code:

LINE="--enqueue -S session=0,mrl=/home/user/kelly.mpg#volume:100"
eval xine $LINE

Also try ${LINE}.

Yeah I tried:

Code:

eval xine --enqueue ${LINE}

and that works with a line from the file that looks like this:

/home/user/kelly.mpg#volume:100

which is cool, and essentially allows me to get something working.

However, I have discovered that if I do go about and split the information from the line, then it will handle spaces in filenames much better. I discovered this from your "set x" idea for testing earlier.

Edit: I am happy to leave the --enqueue out of the text file lines and just specify the --enqueue option in my script. This is more efficient I think, because when the text file has one hundred entries, this will save having --enqueue in there 100 times.