[MPlayer-users] BUG: stream_file.c: reconnects to fifos

[Ron Johnson]

On 08/22/2012 03:45 PM, PyroPeter wrote:
> On 08/22/2012 10:17 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
>
>> Would an alternative be:
>> for f in $(find /stuff); do mplayer "$f"; done
>
> No, because it is really hard to get bash to loop over a list of files
> with spaces in the filenames.

Eh?  Double quotes handle them perfectly.

>                                Special characters in filenames are a
> great problem with my music collection, which is why I came up with the
> playlist-through-pipe approach.
>

Double quotes handle them, too.

ron at haggis:~$ touch 'foo&bar'
ron at haggis:~$ touch 'snaggle|rock)bar'
ron at haggis:~$ dir *bar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ron ron 0 2012-08-22 18:04:36 foo&bar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ron ron 0 2012-08-22 18:05:02 snaggle|rock)bar
ron at haggis:~$ for f in *bar; do echo "$f"; done
foo&bar
snaggle|rock)bar


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