Re: bash scripting: mplayer command line playlist

Mike Hoy wrote:
> assuming i want to use mplayer in command line only how can i make a
> shell script that plays all of my music files in my music/ directory
> w/out having to specify each sub directory?
>
> So far I got this working:
>
> a file called playlist.sh:
> mplayer -shuffle band1/*.mp3 band2/*mp3 band3/*.mp3
>
> this playlist would be fine, but often i add or remove sub dirs from
> w/in my music/ directory
>
> and I specify *.mp3 so mplayer doesn't try to play anything buy mp3's
>
> thx
>
> mike hoy

find music/ -name '*.mp3' -exec mplayer -shuffle {} \;

Note, you probably want to add the full path to your music/ directory.

find is very powerful. There is a whole slew of qualifiers you can 
specify to tailor the files you want to find. Of course, see man find.
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