Shell Programming and Scripting

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Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$ aplay
-bash: aplay: command not found
Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$

Last login: Thu Mar 28 21:04:40 on ttys000
Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$ afplay
Usage:
afplay [option...] audio_file

Options: (may appear before or after arguments)
  {-v | --volume} VOLUME
    set the volume for playback of the file
  {-h | --help}
    print help
  { --leaks}
    run leaks analysis
  {-t | --time} TIME
    play for TIME seconds
  {-r | --rate} RATE
    play at playback rate
  {-q | --rQuality} QUALITY
    set the quality used for rate-scaled playback (default is 0 - low quality, 1 - high quality)
  {-d | --debug}
    debug print output
Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$

#!/bin/sh

while read line; do
	set -- $line
	while [ "$1" ]; do
		echo aplay "$1.wav" # remove echo to actually let aplay play the wav file
		shift
	done
done

exit 0

~/unix.com$ cat input_file
one four five
two
three

~/unix.com$ cat input_file | sh the_above_script.sh 
aplay one.wav
aplay four.wav
aplay five.wav
aplay two.wav
aplay three.wavOf course, remove the echo that prevent the aplay to do its job :p[/QUOTE