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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Renaming Movies (or Flipping Portions of Filenames Using sed or awk) Post 302438017 by radoulov on Saturday 17th of July 2010 12:26:31 PM
Old 07-17-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by rdcwayx

[...]What's the purpose to add "--" after mv, I never use like this way before.
-- indicates end of options. It's there for extra protection.
Consider the extreme case when the movie name begins with a dash:
Code:
% mv 2010_-90_Celsius__1080p -90_Celsius_2010
mv: unknown option -- 9
Try `mv --help' for more information.
% mv -- 2010_-90_Celsius__1080p -90_Celsius_2010
%

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pia

pia(1)							      General Commands Manual							    pia(1)

NAME

       pia - play media files

SYNOPSIS

       pia [ options ] movie

DESCRIPTION

       pia is a small X11 tool which plays movie files.

OPTIONS

       pia understands the usual toolkit options (-geometry + friends).  Additional options are:

       -h     display help text

       -v     be verbose.

       -debug enable debug messages.

       -dsp <dev>
	      Use OSS device <dev> for sound.

       -noxv  Disable Xvideo extension.

       -nogl  Disable OpenGL.

       -noaudio
	      Don't play sound.

       -novideo
	      Don't play video.

       -slow n
	      Slowdown video playback by factor n.  n=2 doubles playback time, ...  This also turns off audio playback.

SUPPORTED MOVIE FORMATS

       Main  purpose  of this utility is to playback movie files recorded by xawtv, motv and streamer.	It should be able to playback every AVI or
       QuickTime movie written by one of the mentioned utilities.  Feel free to submit a bug report if this doesn't work for some file.

   QuickTime
       pia uses libquicktime to decode quicktime movies, thus it should be able to decode  and	playback  all  movies  with  codecs  supported	by
       libquicktime.

   AVI
       AVI  support  is  very  limited.   Video:  uncompressed RGB data (15 and 24 bpp) and mjpeg is supported.  Audio: only uncompressed PCM data
       works.

   WAV
       WAV files are playable too, with the same limitation like AVI audio: only uncompressed PCM data.

AUTHOR

       Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

COPYRIGHT

       2002 Gerd Knorr

       Copyright (C) 2002 Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as  published	by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This  program  is  distributed  in  the	hope  that  it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free  Software  Foundation,
       Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

								(c) 2002 Gerd Knorr							    pia(1)
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