#!/bin/sh while true;do new=`mpc current` if mpc | grep -q playing; then symbol='p' else symbol='P' fi echo "$symbol`echo $new | cut --bytes 1-30`" echo "K`mpc -h 127.0.0.1 volume | perl -pe 's/^volume://' | perl -pe 's/%$//' | perl -pe 's/^ //'`" mpc idle > /dev/null done