On 15/10/2007, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 $* > For whatever reason, it does not close the previous vlc instance. I have tried: #!/bin/sh pkill vlc /usr/bin/vlc "$*" And also with /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh. The script is in ~/bin/vlc, with permissions -rwxr-xr-x and ~/bin is in my path. I right-click a video file and using Konqueror's "open with" dialog I type in the full path to /home/user/bin/vlc to open one file, and then another. However, the first vlc instance stays open. I checked and pkill vlc from Konsole _does_ kill all open vlc instances. So I don't understand why the script does not close them. Any ideas? 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
