On Dec 26, 2010, at 11:02 AM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 06:01:45PM +0000, RW wrote: >> >> On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:40:43 -0800 >> Chip Camden <sterl...@camdensoftware.com> wrote: >> >>> Quoth Frank Shute on Sunday, 26 December 2010: >>>> 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? >>>> >>>> Sorry for the OT posting but I thought a brainteaser might clear the >>>> fog caused by excessive Xmas indulgence ;) >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>> >>> change "cat t...n.m3u" to "random < t..n.m3u" >>> >> >> That should be >> >> random -f trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u >> >> see random(6) for what happens when it reads directly from stdin >> (without "-f -") >> > > Excellent. I didn't know about random(6), I was getting lost in the > manpages: there are manpages for random in 3 different sections! > Should have used apropos. >
Just keep in mind that random(6) comes from the `games' distribution-set. wget -r ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.1-RELEASE/games cd games sudo ./install.sh Not sure if it's available anywhere else. -- Devin _______________________________________________ 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"
