[MPlayer-users] One instance of mplayer, no more

[Alexander Roalter]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 15/10/2007, Nico Sabbi <Nicola.Sabbi at poste.it> wrote:
>> Il Monday 15 October 2007 16:16:31 Dotan Cohen ha scritto:
>>> I just introduced the stepmother to Linux, and she is rather
>>> enjoying Fedora. However, she cannot program herself to close any
>>> open instance of mplayer before clicking on another file. I'm no
>>> good at bash, and I need this working for her _today_, so I'm
>>> kindly asking if anyone has a wrapper script for mplayer that
>>> checks if there is a running instance, and if so closes it before
>>> opening a new instance. Basically, she needs the appearance that
>>> the new file is 'replacing' the old file in the open program. Sorry
>>> for the bother, and thanks in advance.
>>>
>> killall -INT mplayer; mplayer file will do, but not open a new
>> mplayer in an already open window if it's what you want.
> 
> If she were typing at the CLI then that would be what I'd tell her to
> do. But she's a mouse-only grandma. She clicks on files in konqueror.
> I need a script to put in ~/bin/mplayer that will kill any open
> /usr/bin/mplayer and then open /usr/bin/mplayer with all the arguments
> that were passed to ~/bin/mplayer.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 

how about

#!/bin/sh
killall -INT mplayer
mplayer $@

as ~/bin/mplayer?

as for the $@ i think it's the correct one, but I'm not completely sure...

-- 
cheers,
Alex