On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 2:04 PM, b. f. <bf1...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Frank Shute wrote: > >I generally play my tracks of an album like so: > > > >for track in $(cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u); do > >mplayer $track > >done > > > >They then play in the correct order. > > > >How would I go about randomising the order of play using > >sh (preferably) or perl? > > cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u | xargs mplayer ... -shuffle > > or > > mplayer ... -playlist trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u -shuffle > > if they are in a uncommented, one-absolute-path-per-line format > without extended directives? > > Here is something that I wrote a long time ago in python, works quite well [code] #!/usr/bin/env python def randline(f): for i,j in enumerate(file(f, 'rb')): if random.randint(0,i) == i: line = j eturn line print randline(text) [/code] Name it as you wish then it's ./file.py <INPUT>, granted this will only read 1 (random) line from INPUT and print it, it shouldn't be hard to modify this for your needs tho, enjoy :) C- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"