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authorStefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@poste.it>2011-02-12 09:12:41 +0000
committerMans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>2011-02-12 13:17:09 +0000
commite063f5886b27a7374f5060b7c2c21385685b2cb0 (patch)
tree3be666638a2a8349027b096e5a4dc7f2c031294c /doc/faq.texi
parent40321376d8aea3347bec9c4d09925e8c5b8edb55 (diff)
Fix script command in a FAQ entry
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. Signed-off-by: Mans Rullgard <mans@mansr.com>
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@@ -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