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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting dirname, save cut portion to variable, clean up Post 302243923 by tret on Monday 6th of October 2008 08:34:05 PM
Old 10-06-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by cfajohnson

The shell has parameter expansion that can do what you want; there is no need for an external command:

Code:
path="/home/xbmc/sab_downloads/video/tv/grey's anatomy/season 3"
showseason=${path#/home/xbmc/sab_downloads/video/tv/}
show=${showseason%/*}

cfa! this works brilliantly, can you give me a quick rundown of what you did here, I am interested in how this works
 

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PLAYMPEG(1)						      General Commands Manual						       PLAYMPEG(1)

NAME
plaympeg - MPEG audio (MP3) and video (MPEG-1) player SYNOPSIS
plaympeg [options] file ... DESCRIPTION
plaympeg is an MPEG audio and video player that uses the SDL MPEG Player Library. It can play back MPEG audio (layer 1, 2 and 3), MPEG video (MPEG-1) and MPEG system (audio and video combined) files. MPEG-2 video files (as found on DVDs) are not supported. The video player works best on a 16 bit color depth X11 display, it works on other color depths with reduced speed as well. You'll need a CPU with 300 MHz or more to play back an MPEG system stream with 25 frames per seconds (fps) at full speed. OPTIONS
--help Show short usage information --noaudio Don't play the audio stream (if available) --novideo Don't play the video stream (if available) --fullscreen Play the MPEG video stream in fullscreen mode (this requires root privileges or a setuid plaympeg binary) -2, --double Play the MPEG video stream at double size -l, --loop Play the stream (audio or video) over and over again -v N, --volume N Set the volume of the audio stream to N% (N in the range of 0 to 100) -s S, --scale S Play the MPEG video stream at S size SEE ALSO
SMPEG home page at http://www.lokigames.com/development/smpeg.php3 AUTHOR
The SDL MPEG Player Library was written by Karl Robillard and Sam Lantinga of Loki Entertainment Software. Please report any bugs and/or fixes to smpeg@lokigames.com. This manual page was written by Stefan Gybas <sgybas@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used elsewhere under the GPL. PLAYMPEG(1)
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