[MPlayer-users] scripting problem

[Corey Hickey]

Marcel Naziri wrote:
> hi,
> 
> why is a script like this not working?
> 
> for mov in `ls -1t`; do mplayer $mov; done
> 
> to play the movies in directory sorted by date...
> mplayer complains e.g.
> 
> Playing 08.mpg
> File not found: '08.mpg'
> 
> but the file exists and something like 
> for mov in 05.mpg 08.mpg; do mplayer $mov; done
> works. 
> 
> cheers
>    zwobbl

Hmm, worksforme when all filenames concerned have no spaces.
A cleaner way would be to:
mplayer `ls -1t`
which plays the files as a playlist.

For files that have spaces:
ls -1t > playlist.txt ; mplayer -playlist playlist.txt

-Corey