Bash trick of the day

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (Dan Ritter)]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 10:24:44PM -0400, D Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> Hey David, thanks for the script!  One question, when I set,
> 
> cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg=$1
> 2=$2
> 
> it just keeps recording and doesn't stop in 120 seconds as expected.  I 
> use ctrl-c to stop capture.  Am I doing something incorrectly?  Thanks.

No. Why would you expect it to exit in 120 seconds?

-dsr-

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