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valvet

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Registered: 2009-06-06

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[SOLVED] Pipe output of find into mplayer

Hi

I'm often looking for songs using the find command, copying the result with my dear mouse and playing it in mplayer - how do I automate this a bit, piping it into mplayer automatically?

output

michael@swamp ~/music> find . -iname '*damer*'
./VA-Dance_Chart_Vol_24-2CD-2009-pLAN9/122-julian-damer.mp3

Thanks

Last edited by valvet (2010-11-04 13:10:52)

ber_t

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Re: [SOLVED] Pipe output of find into mplayer

find . -iname '*damer*' -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer

valvet

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2009-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Pipe output of find into mplayer

find . -iname '*damer*' -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer

Excellent, thank you!

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Pipe output of find into mplayer

I use this:

[karol@black ~]$ type musa
musa is a function
musa () 
{ 
    find /home/karol/music/ -type f -iname "*$1*" -iname "*$2*" -exec mplayer '{}' \;
}

colbert

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Re: [SOLVED] Pipe output of find into mplayer

I use this:

[karol@black ~]$ type musa
musa is a function
musa () 
{ 
    find /home/karol/music/ -type f -iname "*$1*" -iname "*$2*" -exec mplayer '{}' \;
}

That is great! I wonder, how could I change that find line so that the directory/location being searched is also a variable?

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] Pipe output of find into mplayer

That is great! I wonder, how could I change that find line so that the directory/location being searched is also a variable?

You mean like this:

find "$1" -type f -iname "*$2*" -iname "*$3*" -exec mplayer '{}' \;

?
Of course it can be $3, $1, $2 if you first want to say what to look for and next where.

'Find' looks in subfolders and I have all my music in one place, plus I don't want t type things like '/home/karol/blah/foo/bar' every time. If your paths look like this, you can add some variables to this function so that you write e.g. 'musa $music killer queen' and not 'musa /home/karol/music/ killer queen'.
If you don't know how to do this, just ask.

Last edited by karol (2010-11-04 19:34:16)

valvet

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 147

Re: [SOLVED] Pipe output of find into mplayer

Clever looking function, I'll try that out - thanks alot :-)