[lug] Joining commands?

Jeff Schroeder jeff at neobox.net
Wed Apr 7 17:39:34 MDT 2004


John asked:

> I use Sun UNIX at work, and was trying to play a series of audio
> files using the following command:
>
> find / -name '*.au' | audioplay

I suspect that piping everything at once into audioplay is the problem.  
Instead, play them one at a time:

find / -name '*.au' -exec audioplay {} \;

HTH,
Jeff



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