Dotan Cohen wrote: > The stepmother is now enjoying her first few hours on Fedora. One > thing that she cannot program herself to do is to close any open > instance of mplayer or vlc before clicking on another file. I'm no > good at bash, and I need this working for her _today_, so I'm kindly > asking the Fedora community if anyone has a wrapper script for > mplayer/vlc that checks if there is a running instance, and if so > closes it before opening a new instance. Basically, she needs the > appearance that the new file is 'replacing' the old file in the open > program. Sorry for the bother, and thanks in advance. pkill mplayer; mplayer <file> -- Mark Knoop
