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grabs and print the current playing song
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now-playing.sh
#!/bin/bash
pacmd list-sink-inputs |\
grep media.name |\
sed -n -e 's/^.*media\.name = //p' |\
sed 's/"//g' |\
sed "s/'//g" |\
sed 's/playback stream//ig' |\
sed 's/playback//ig' |\
sed 's/AudioCallbackDriver//ig' |\
sed 's/AudioStream//ig' |\
sed '/^\s*$/d' |\
sed -n '1p' |\
cut -c 1-75
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