I watch movies from my Desktop connected to my tv. I like to use my laptop as a "remote control" through vnc. In order to do that I use vlc like so:

vlc --x11-display :0.0 --fullscreen --no-wx-embed "whatever the file is"

This works really well for me, but I don't want to type this everytime I want to watch something and in all honesty I don't have it memorized so to shorten it I'd like to make a little bash script called vlc-vnc.

So far I have:

#!/bin/bash
vlc --x11-display :0.0 --fullscreen --no-wx-embed

The only problem is when I'm in the command prompt this script does not open the file and I'm not sure what to put at the end to allow the open the file I'm selecting. In other words I want to be able to say

vlc-vnc "file"

Please help.

Hi.

The arguments you pass into a script are assigned to $<number>, so in your script, you can do:
and it should work in the way you want.

Dave

That is great, it worked.

However one thing I noticed, what if I wanted to open a directory of files for instance vlc-vnc *

When I tried that vlc only listed the first file and no more to the playlist. In other words what does the number that you choose to put in mean?

Can you try using $@ instead of $1 ?
I'm guessing the * will expand first, and is then passed to the script. Which is why you're getting only the first file.
$1 refers to the first argument (after the script name), $@ refers to all the args.