On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:31:02 +0000, Yassin Philip wrote: >On 15/11/16 16:08, Jeremy Jongepier wrote: >> On 11/15/2016 03:19 PM, Yassin Philip wrote: >>> But found no way to detect the transport status ; Is there a way to >>> know it? >> I use this very hacky script that I bind to my Play media key (I use >> openbox for this): >> >> --- >> #!/bin/bash >> >> function jack_transport_status() { >> jack_showtime | head -n1 & &> /dev/null >> } >> >> if jack_transport_status | grep -q -i stopped >> then >> echo play | jack_transport &> /dev/null >> killall jack_showtime >> else >> echo stop | jack_transport &> /dev/null >> killall jack_showtime >> fi >> --- >> >I can't get it to work, somehow it chokes at the showtime cmd, that >refuses to give back the prompt..? I mean, just exec >jack_transport_status in the shell should return, right? jack_transport_status is a function of his script, it quasi is an alias for jack_showtime | head -n1 & &> /dev/null. Actually you could add an alias to .bashrc or run from command line jack_showtime | head -n1 & &> /dev/null is the same as >/dev/null 2>&1 , it redirects STDERR and STDOUT to /dev/null, IOW all output is invisible. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user