Re: scripting the "rec" function for a fixed time.

2003-03-07 Thread whitnl73
On 24 Feb 2003, Peter Howell wrote: > I would like to be able to run the rec command unattended. Right now > when executed, it will record sound until I hit C-c. I would really > like to be able to right a script which will execute "rec ...", then > wait a specified period of time, then pass the

Re: scripting the "rec" function for a fixed time.

2003-02-26 Thread Eric
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 04:19 am, Carl wrote: > At 19:44 25/02/2003 -0500, Peter Howell wrote: > >On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 01:14, pa3gcu wrote: > >> > "rec" is not a stock linux command, and I cannot readily identify a > >> > package that includes that application (just trying to match on "rec"

Re: scripting the "rec" function for a fixed time.

2003-02-26 Thread Carl
At 19:44 25/02/2003 -0500, Peter Howell wrote: >On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 01:14, pa3gcu wrote: >> > "rec" is not a stock linux command, and I cannot readily identify a package >> > that includes that application (just trying to match on "rec" turns up >> > several hundred hits in the Debian package da

Re: scripting the "rec" function for a fixed time.

2003-02-26 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 07:44:08PM -0500, Peter Howell wrote: > Ok, just did a little rtfm. I guess I could use ps and extract the id. > Now I guess I'd better learn some bash scripting You can use pkill, too; it uses process names instead of ids. Elias -- University of Athens

Re: scripting the "rec" function for a fixed time.

2003-02-25 Thread pa3gcu
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 00:44, Peter Howell wrote: > It appears that rec does not buffer the sound, but instead writes it > directly to the file. OK, i should have mentioned that i dont use the program myself. > It's inelegant, but I suppose I could kill the application after a > specified

Re: scripting the "rec" function for a fixed time.

2003-02-25 Thread Peter Howell
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 01:14, pa3gcu wrote: > > "rec" is not a stock linux command, and I cannot readily identify a package > > that includes that application (just trying to match on "rec" turns up > > several hundred hits in the Debian package database). So I'd suggest you > > tell us a bit more

Re: scripting the "rec" function for a fixed time.

2003-02-24 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:01:03PM -0500, Peter Howell wrote: > I would like to be able to run the rec command unattended. Right now > when executed, it will record sound until I hit C-c. I would really > like to be able to right a script which will execute "rec ...", then > wait a specified peri

Re: scripting the "rec" function for a fixed time.

2003-02-24 Thread pa3gcu
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 02:55, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 07:01 PM 2/24/2003 -0500, Peter Howell wrote: > >I would like to be able to run the rec command unattended. Right now > >when executed, it will record sound until I hit C-c. I would really > >like to be able to right a script which will

Re: scripting the "rec" function for a fixed time.

2003-02-24 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 07:01 PM 2/24/2003 -0500, Peter Howell wrote: I would like to be able to run the rec command unattended. Right now when executed, it will record sound until I hit C-c. I would really like to be able to right a script which will execute "rec ...", then wait a specified period of time, then pass

scripting the "rec" function for a fixed time.

2003-02-24 Thread Peter Howell
I would like to be able to run the rec command unattended. Right now when executed, it will record sound until I hit C-c. I would really like to be able to right a script which will execute "rec ...", then wait a specified period of time, then pass the C-c to it. Or is there a simpler way? Than