On 12/29/2010 09:43 PM, RiverWind wrote:
Ok, so how do you distinguish between soft and hard lynx? I thought
there was only one sort. When using lynx, I simply type "lynx"
followed by an url or directory name.
Sorry for the confusion...my initial reply referred to
"lynx-the-cat" (L Y N X) which is a console web-browser. My
follow-up post (sorry, I didn't copy the mailing-list on that
reply) referred to links (L I N K S, as in a chain) which
confusingly is *also* a console browser, but in the context of my
email refers to a file-system element that allows you to have one
copy of the data on your hard-drive, and references to it from
one or more other places. These are created with the "ln" command.
So my suggestion was to create a playlist folder somewhere and
then link ("ln") the files you want into that folder from
wherever they are.
My somewhat confusing command is some intermediate-level
command-shell utilization which uses a "for" loop at the
command-line. Assuming you have a folder named ~/playlist and
are currently in the directory containing all your mp3s, you can
use this lengthy command to create the links for the files you
specify in the file-list (in this example, file[1-3].mp3)
for fname in file1.mp3 file2.mp3 file3.mp3 ; do ln -s "${fname}"
~/playlist ; done
This is the same as just issuing
ln -s file1.mp3 ~/playlist
ln -s file2.mp3 ~/playlist
ln -s file3.mp3 ~/playlist
but without all the redundant typing which becomes annoying for
more than a couple files.
But then you do understand correctly that you should be able to
just issue
mpg123 ~/playlist/*.mp3
to play that custom directory of links-to-mp3-files.
Hope that makes more sense (especially clearing up the overabuse
of the term "links"/"lynx")
-tim
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