03-16-2012
Forgot to mention. Small change..
The first argument is fixed, but remaining no . of args may be incremental.
I mean, I want all the args $2 ...$n to be assigned to variable.
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NAME
mtp-tools - tools for communicating with Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) devices
SYNOPSIS
mtp-albumart [args]
mtp-albums
mtp-connect [args]
mtp-delfile [args]
mtp-detect
mtp-emptyfolders
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mtp-filetree
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mtp-hotplug [args]
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DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the commands distributed with the libmtp package, collectively called mtp-tools.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original programs do not have manual pages. Concise synopsis can be
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http://libmtp.sourceforge.net
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