Simon Baxter wrote: >>Create some directory and put a file in there that has only the line >>"http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/realmedia/fmg2.ram" and the extension of >>your chosing (for example *.playlist). >> >>Then you have to modify your mplayer.sh to add -playlist to mplayer >>command line when playing files with this extension. > > > I'm still learning many scripting tasks - can you suggest a way to test if a > file has a '.playlist' suffix? FILENAME=somefile.playlist if [ "${FILENAME##*.}" = "playlist" ]; then -- Anssi Hannula