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Linux commands - piping commands

I tried the following command find ~/dir1 *.m4a | play

Directory dir1 has exactly 1 m4a file in it and I'd like it to be played Yet I get a usage error from play. Why?

Solution

  • May be play don't use STDIN so you have to use xargs

     find ~/dir1 \*.m4a |xargs play