vlc broken by redirect

[Christian Langer]

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 Hi, I seem to have lost vlc. It was working ok til I tried the following
from http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/iodirection.html.

"Like I told you before, files aren't the only places where you can redirect
the standard output. You can redirect it to devices, too:
$ cat sound.wav > /dev/audio

As you saw, in the above example the cat command concatenates a file named
sound.wav and the results are sent to a device called /dev/audio. What's the
fun here, then? /dev/audio is the audio device, and when you send there the
contents of a sound file, that file is played. So if your sound is properly
configured, the above command plays the file sound.wav!"

I thought that if I sent a music file to vlc in this way, vlc would play it.
So I did cat song.mp3 > /usr/bin/vlc. At this point vlc stopped working. I
looked in /usr/bin and found that vlc had been turned into a music file! So
I erased it, and removed it via yum. Success. Then I reinstalled via yum;
success. But the messages now are: from terminal:

[chris at localhost bin]$ vlc
bash: vlc: command not found

>From gui: Could not launch 'VLC media player' Failed to execute child
process "vlc" (No such file or directory).

Any help? Thanks,

Chris


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Chris Langer
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Library Downtown Campus
Tennessee State University
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Nashville, TN 37209
615 963 7187
clanger at tnstate.edu
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