What is Random Executor?
Random Executor is an app for randomly selecting a file from a directory you specify and opening it in using the default application for that file's type, or with a custom application and any additional launch parameters. You can optionally specify name rules that have to be met to narrow down the selection of files that may be opened.
Examples
You've got too many movies to watch and need to pick one at random otherwise you'll never decide. You open Random Executor and select your movies directory then configure filename restrictions to avoid playing movies you have already seen, or restrict the movies to one which contains a particular word, and define file types to avoid such as image and subtitle files, then click Go! Friday night sorted.
Simple settings to open a random video file from the C:\Movies directory
Using additional settings so that only a video file with a name containing 'The' (with an uppercase T) and at least
one of the words 'space', 'adventure', 'road' or 'journey' will be executed.
The specific application to open the video file is also specified along with additional launch parameters.
(See more VLC parameters here)
This example plays 200 video files one after another, and allows videos to be played more than once if they're selected.
Note the addition of the parameter --play-and-exit: without this VLC would stay open at the end of the video.
(See more VLC parameters here)
Starting Random Executor from a terminal with the --go parameter to starting executing immediately using the last used configuration
Creating a shortcut to launch Random Executor and immediately start executing with the last configuration, by adding the parameter --go to the shorcut's Target
Features:
- Select one or more source directories and whether or not to include their subdirectories
- Open the random file with the default handler or specify a custom application with parameters
- Set rules for a file to be selected (filter conditions):
- File extension must be a particular type, i.e. image, video etc.
- Name must contain certain words, or at least one of those words
- Name can't contains certain words
- Execute a specified number of random files:
- all at once
- open the next after the previous has closed
- at regular intervals (on a timer)
- See a summary of which files were executed
- Portable and totally free!
Commandline arguments:
--help | /? | -? show possible commandline arguments
--go start Random Executor minimised and start executing with the last used settings
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