On 15/10/2007, Mark Knoop <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Thanks, Mark, but she's over 70 and can barely see the screen. I don't think she's aware that there's an input device other than the mouse. She's not exactly the terminal type. She needs a script that I can place in ~/bin/mplayer that will call /usr/bin/mplayer with any arguments sent to ~/bin/mplayer such that if mplayer is already running, it will be killed before another process starts. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
