choose-next
Chooses a file from a directory. Very handy to re-watch tv series!
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Motivation
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Sometimes (when recovering from a hangover, being depressed, etc.)
all you want is to lie in bed an watch a few Futurama/Malcolm episodes.
But even navigating to the right folder and choosing an episode which
you haven't seen yesterday is too much work.
With this small and simple script all you have to do is to type "playfuturama"
(using tab completion of course!) if you have set up e.g. this alias:
alias playfuturama='choose-next -c "mplayer -fs" "/media/usb/Futurama"'
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Usage
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Usage: choose-next [OPTION]... DIR [FILE]...
Chooses a file from directory DIR (recursively) and print it's name to stdout.
Afterwards it is appended to a log file. Only files which are not in log file
are considered for selection. Tries to choose the file which is next in
lexical order in DIR.
Options:
--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c CMD, --command=CMD
execute CMD on every selected file; %s in CMD is
substituted with the filename, otherwise it is
appended to CMD
--clear remove log file and exit
--clear-first remove first log file entry and exit
--clear-last remove last log file entry and exit
--dump dump log file to stdout and exit
-i, --no-read don't use log file to filter selection
-L FILE, --logfile=FILE
path of log file (default:
~/.choose-next/${DIR//\//_})
-l, --last play last played file
-n NUM, --number=NUM number of files to select (-1: infinite)
-p, --prepend prepend selected filename instead of appending
-q, --quiet don't output anything
-r, --random choose a random file from DIR
-v, --verbose be verbose (can be used multiple times)
-w, --no-write don't record selected files to log file
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Examples
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1. Over the next few weeks you want to watch all Futurama episodes in strict
rotation:
# clear existing log file
choose-next --clear /media/usb/Futurama
# no special options needed
alias playfuturama='choose-next -c "mplayer -fs" "/media/usb/Futurama"'
2. You want to see a random episode (out of order!), but not one you have
already seen. You want to prepend the filename so that the rotation
order is retained:
playfuturama -rp
3. You were somehow distracted, and want to watch the last episode again:
playfuturama -l
4. You want to watch a specific episode, and continue to watch from this
point on:
playfuturama -n10 "/media/usb/Futurama/S04E01.avi"