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Helpers for `afplay` OS X
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function pid_for_name() {
ps -A | grep -m1 $1 | awk '{print $1}'
}
function pause_af {
kill -17 $(pid_for_name afplay)
}
function play_af {
kill -19 $(pid_for_name afplay)
}
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This wasn't working for me, I had to:

function pid_for_name() {
ps -A | grep -m2 $1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'
}

I don't know why our systems would report the grep process and afplay in a different order.

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