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

[Ron Johnson]

On 08/23/2012 06:05 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le septidi 7 fructidor, an CCXX, Krzysztof Duchnowski a écrit :
>> What about this, it have the initial lag of loading playlist from pipe,
>> but only during startup:
>>
>> :$ PLAYLIST=; while read f; do PLAYLIST="${PLAYLIST}\n${PWD}/${f}";
>> done< <(find); mplayer -playlist <(printf "${PLAYLIST}")
>
> Breaks if tere are '%' or '\' chars in the file names.
>
> Why do people insist on using complex and brittle solutions when using a
> correct shell will fix everything in a second?
>

Because even Linux geeks tend to follow the "good enough" common 
solution that comes installed with the distro.

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