[ls+mplayer]recurcive directory cat question

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i want give list of the files in music directory to mplayer’s input

in current directory i can play this way

ls *.ogg|mplayer .

ls -R

give the list of all files in sub-directories

ls -R *.ogg|mplayer .

i have nothing…

please help with advise on my question.

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You are under a misunderstanding here. The ls does nothing useful. mplayer does not read input for a list of files. The reason it happens to work is because . matches any file with a dot in the middle of the name and certainly matches any file ending in .ogg. mplayer probably ignores the non .ogg files.

ls -R

give the list of all files in sub-directories

ls -R *.ogg|mplayer .

i have nothing…

please help with advise on my question.

Try this:

find . -name '*.ogg' -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer

This also handles files with spaces in them by the way. You’d have to read up on find and xargs to understand how this works.

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thank you very much
this is completely new to me. i did not use nor find and xarg i will read about this thank you ken_yap one more time…