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> Hi,
>
> In my qwest to convert my .wma files to .ogg I'm a bit closer now, having
> replaced thousands of spaces with underscore.
>
> If I try to play a song from a script like this:
>
> song="/home/s/MyMusic/mohmp3/enya.mp3"
> mplayer "$song"
>
> It does not work. From the cmdline I can type
>
> mplayer /home/s/MyMusic/mohmp3/enya.mp3
>
> it plays fine.
>
> - From there you can also easily read the var $song and execute it with or
> without quotes. So the script is obviously the problem. I've googled all
> over but not found anyone who's run into the same problem...
>
> Mplayers documentation says nothing about running it from a script, but
> before subscribing to yet another list I thought I'd check if someone here
> had run into this.
In addition to the other posts:
#/bin/sh
song="/home/johndoe/outfile"
file ${song}
export IFS='&'
song="/home/johndoe/mp3/buffy/Bif Naked - Lucky.mp3"
file ${song}
The first uses the {} to separate the variable name from other fields. Useful
in certain circumstances. I always do so as a matter of course.
The second sets the Internal Field Separator to a non-whitespace character.
This is useful for filenames with spaces. It beats using multiple escape ("\")
sequences.
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