exec .sh in Conky

[Member blur13]

Hi everyone!

This is driving me insane. I want to have the volume displayed in my conky so I wrote a simple bash script:

#!/bin/bash

awk -F”[][]” ‘/Left:/ { print $2 }’ <(amixer sget Master)

named it vol.sh, placed it in $PATH and added it to the .conkyrc by using:

Vol: ${exec vol.sh}

That results in just “Vol:” on my display. Running the script in the terminal results in “65%” or whatever the volume happens to be at. What am I doing wrong here?

Any help appreciated.

[Moderator christophe]

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Isn’t it “execi” in conky?
Try that…

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[Member calciumsodium]

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Hi @blur13

I tried the following and it works for me. Just add the following to the end of the .conkryc file, or where ever you choose:

Volume: ${exec amixer get Master -M | grep -oE -m1 "[[:digit:]]*%"}

[Moderator BobC]

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Yes, there were problems with the command…

$ awk -F”[][]” ‘/Left:/ { print $2 }’ <(amixer sget Master)
awk: cmd. line:1: ‘/Left:/
awk: cmd. line:1: ^ invalid char '�' in expression
bobc@XPS15-7559:~
$ amixer get Master -M | grep -oE -m1 "[[:digit:]]*%"
88%
bobc@XPS15-7559:~

[Member blur13]

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Thanks for the help guys!

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