[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Fix script command in a FAQ entry.

Stefano Sabatini stefano.sabatini-lala
Sat Feb 12 10:12:41 CET 2011


In the FAQ section "How do I encode single pictures into movies?", use
-s for generating symbolic links with the ln command.

The script was generating hard links, which is not likely what it was
supposed to do.

Fix issue 2488.
---
 doc/faq.texi |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/faq.texi b/doc/faq.texi
index 100adff..eeaf0df 100644
--- a/doc/faq.texi
+++ b/doc/faq.texi
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ that match @code{*jpg} to the @file{/tmp} directory in the sequence of
 @file{img001.jpg}, @file{img002.jpg} and so on.
 
 @example
-  x=1; for i in *jpg; do counter=$(printf %03d $x); ln "$i" /tmp/img"$counter".jpg; x=$(($x+1)); done
+  x=1; for i in *jpg; do counter=$(printf %03d $x); ln -s "$i" /tmp/img"$counter".jpg; x=$(($x+1)); done
 @end example
 
 If you want to sequence them by oldest modified first, substitute
-- 
1.7.2.3




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