Hi,

I have a problem with trying to make a shell script to down load a play list, change the name and then run "music on console" media player.
I want to download this playlist with wget http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutc...e=filename.pls
then i want to rename it 3201.pls and then run the command mocp
I have tried to write a shell script but wget downloads the file but doesnt exit and so the script doesn't work.

any help appreciated

thanks

Tony

Hi,

You don't post what you have so far, but this seems to work (mind the single quotes around the URL):

wget 'http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=3201&file=filename.pls'

Without the quotes the command just hangs (until enter is pressed), probably due to the & in the URL, which bash interprets (to the background) before the wget command is started.

Hope this helps.

...or use the -q option of wget. Bye

Hi,

Thanks druuna and colucix for your info have the script working now.
Here is the script.

#!/bin/bash
wget -q 'http://www.shoutcast.com/sbin/shoutcast-playlist.pls?rn=3201&file=filename.pls' -O 3201.pls
mocp 3201.pls

wget now downloads the file from shoutcast in quiet mode then the -O command changes the name of the file so that music on console recognizes the file.

mocp 3201.pls command runs the media player and tells it to load 3201.pls
you have to press enter to play.

I created an application link on my desktop to the shell script in my home directory, you must select run in terminal.

many thanks for your help

Tony