On my Linux machine, I am trying to shuffle all music in my directory and play it. When I run omxplayer $(ls -1b |sort -R), it says /usr/bin/omxplayer.bin: invalid option -- '\'. This doesn't make sense. omxplayer should run the output of ls -1b which should show the output of the directory in 1 column and show escape characters so it would recognize the spaces. What am I doing wrong and how else could I shuffle all music in my directory and play it?
omxplayer "$(ls | shuf -n 1)" should work.
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"might work"? what are the failure cases? (see mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs) – Jeff Schaller♦ Mar 25 '17 at 16:36
man omxplayer | grep -i shuffleoromxplayer --help– Mio Rin Mar 25 '17 at 18:31