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

Janne Grunau janne-ffmpeg
Sat Feb 12 14:17:39 CET 2011


On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:12:41AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> 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

queued

Janne



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