Help with sink switching script

gnuhaut , 27 days ago

Like this?

<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/sh
</span><span style="color:#323232;">set -eu
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">name_from_desc() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    LANG=C pactl list sinks 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        | awk 'BEGIN {FS=": "} /Name:/ {name=$2} /Description:/ {print name, ":", $2}' 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        | while IFS=' : ' read name desc; do
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        if [ "$desc" = "$1" ]; then echo "$name"; fi
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    done
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">id_from_name() {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    pw-cli i "$1" | awk '/id:/ {print $2}'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ret=$(LANG=C pactl list sinks | awk 'BEGIN {FS=": "} /Description:/ {print $2}' | tofi)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">wpctl set-default $(id_from_name $(name_from_desc "$ret"))
</span>

I don’t get how that case statement of yours is even supposed to work. I’m pretty sure that’s just a syntax error. I guess you want to map from description to name? But that’s not remotely what that does.

Communist OP , 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

I made a better solution in my post that works perfectly… and is better for me because it isn’t a script (I don’t like adding additional dotfiles) sorry for the unnecessary effort.