On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:34:33 +0200 "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Which what Mark's answer is in reality #!/bin/sh pkill mplayer /usr/bin/mplayer $*
