[accessiblelinux] Re: sox, enterrupting playback with a script

  • From: "Bohdan R. Rau" <ethanak@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <accessiblelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 07:53:55 +0100

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 13:30:59 -0400, Storm Dragon wrote:
[...]

 Alternatively, is there a way to get the pid of a program you
launched into a variable? If that were possible I could just do kill
pid to cause it to stop.


Simply (in bash):

play -q /your/music.mp3 </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &
pid=$!


Don't forget to put play command to background!

ethanak
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