> Quoth Veljko on Sunday, 20 March 2011:
> > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:52:39PM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote:
> > > I don't know VLC and what it accepts as arguments, but with
> > > mplayer this works at the Mutt pipe-entry prompt:
> > >
> > > mplayer -
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > mplayer /dev/stdin
> > >
> > > Find out if and how VLC accepts standard input as an argument.
> >
> > Tried with mplayer and the result is:
> > Playing /dev/stdin.
> > Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
> > Seek failed
> >
> > or
> >
> > Playing -.
> > Reading from stdin...
> > Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
> > Seek failed
> >
> > > > But it doesn't really matter. I was just being curious about it. :-)
> > >
> > > In practice you would use pipe-message and pipe-entry for text
> > > content mainly I would think.
> > >
> > > c
> >
> > Yeah, I guess you are right, not really intended to be used with
> > multimedia.
Here's a little script I use to move stdin to a file argument:
--------
#!/bin/sh
needsterm=false
while getopts th o; do
case "$o" in
t) needsterm=true;;
h) echo >&2 "Usage: $0 [-t] cmd"
exit 1;;
esac
done
shift `expr $OPTIND - 1`
file=`mktemp /tmp/farg.XXXXXX`
cat > $file
if $needsterm; then
`printf "$*" $file` < /dev/tty
else
`printf "$*" $file`
fi
rm $file
--------
I call it 'farg'.
Now you can use mutt's pipe command for any command that accepts a file
argument:
|farg 'mplayer %s'
for commands that want stdin to be the terminal, add -t:
|farg -t 'vim %s'
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