[MPlayer-users] jpegs

[Loren Merritt]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Loren Merritt wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:25:34PM +0200, Torinthiel wrote:
> > > > mplayer 'mf://*.jpg' -fps 1
> > >
> > > no need to protect the * unless you happen to have a directory named
> > > "mf:" in the working directory, which seems very unlikely to me... :)
> >
> > Unless you're using csh, in which case a wildcard that doesn't match will
> > disappear from the commandline entirely (and refuse to execute the
> > program if all wildcards fail). Which is, IMHO, usually desirable.
>
> rich redirects loren to "csh considered harmful"... (google for it)

Already read it. I agree that csh is unsuitable for scripting (I use Perl
for that), but I still prefer tcsh as my interactive shell.
(Actually, that reminds me... I have to try out Perl SHell sometime.)

--Loren Merritt