Re: Command line list of folders...

Bevis R W King wrote:

[...]
> If you do:
> 
> 	gqview DirectoryA/
> 
> 	or
> 
> 	gqview DirectoryA/*
> 
> it obviously lets you run a slide show of the contents of the directory.
> If you want to make a slide show of a number of directories, then you
> can do it with:
> 
> 	gqview DirectoryA/* DirectoryB/* DirectoryC/* DirectoryD/*
> 
> and that works, at least until the shell explodes with:
> 	gqview: arg list too long
[...]
> So the obvious thing to do is let gqview parse the directory contents
> rather than getting the shell to do a wildcard expansion....  thus the
> obvious step would be:
> 
> 	gqview DirectoryA/ DirectoryB/ DirectoryC/ DirectoryD/
> 
> However this results in DirectoryA being browsed and the following
> STDERR reports of:
> 
> GQview 2.1.1, This is a beta release.
> invalid or ignored: DirectoryB/
> Use --help for options
> invalid or ignored: DirectoryC/
> Use --help for options
> invalid or ignored: DirectoryD/
> Use --help for options
> 
> Not quite what I had in mind... hence I was thinking of diving in and
> trying to fix the code to not do this....  but if you guys are already
> looking into it, or there's a patch in the CVS/SVN tree, then I'd like
> to just grab that rather than digging around in the code.

Feel free to work on this, if you get it working, please send a patch my 
way. And if you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.

Greetings,
John


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