* ... on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 18:58:45 -0600 > I am familiar with scripting (eg python) but am new to linux and shell > scripting. Could someone give me a hint as to how to grab the value of > ID_LENGTH from the mplayer -identify output? mplayer -endpos 0 -vo null -ao null -identify <infile> 2> /dev/null | awk -F '=' '/^ID_LENGTH/ { print $2 }' c -- \black\trash movie _C O W B O Y_ _C A N O E_ _C O M A_ Ein deutscher Western/A German Western --->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ccc.php