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MacOS: mute & unmute from command line
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Mute volume

osascript -e "set volume with output muted"

Unmute volume

osascript -e "set volume without output muted"

Is volume muted?

osascript -e "output muted of (get volume settings)"
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Great solution - Short and to the point!
Thank you!

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geolaw commented Jan 13, 2023

I use the alt - m keystroke with skhd to mute/unmute via a bash script using these commands :

#!/bin/bash
current=$(osascript -e "output muted of (get volume settings)")
if [ "$current" == "true" ]; then
osascript -e "set volume without output muted"
else
osascript -e "set volume with output muted"
fi

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