Handy command-line stuff for terminals or scripts

Sector11 · 2020-11-02 20:47:11

Notice my little script does NOT use "pkill -9".

If running shut it down
If not running, start it up smile

sleekmason · 2020-11-03 01:33:15

*Ouch! Just saw where I may have inferred such inadvertently. Changed to reflect the ld-hotcorners script;)

vasa1 · 2020-11-03 07:03:46

Sector11 wrote:

...
I also have a SSC.sh file to Start|Stop Conky, various ones, that might help you, adapt it for your need:
#!/bin/bash
## Original idea by: GrouchyGaijin
## This idea by: Stinkeye - Jan 2013
## With another tweak by: arclance
## Final tweak by: Sector11
## click to start, click to stop

if pgrep -f "conky -q -c /media/5/Conky/easysid/MechClock/conkyrc_clock"
then
	pkill -xf "conky -q -c /media/5/Conky/easysid/MechClock/conkyrc_clock"
else
	conky -q -c "/media/5/Conky/easysid/MechClock/conkyrc_clock"
fi
It checks to see if the conky is running:
if yes - it kills it
if no - it starts it
Worth a try.
Remember the part inside the " " are the exact command to run the program.

Looks like the "pgrep" bit can be left out:

#!/bin/bash

pkill -xf "conky -c /path/to/conky" || conky -c "/path/to/conky"

ohnonot · 2020-11-06 22:08:11

sleekmason wrote:

What does the -9 do?

http://turnoff.us/image/en/dont-sigkill.png

sleekmason · 2020-11-07 02:27:50

ohnonot wrote:

sleekmason wrote:
What does the -9 do?
http://turnoff.us/image/en/dont-sigkill.png

Ha! This is good:)

sleekmason · 2020-12-11 18:30:27

Made this bit to find which window manager to display in Conky.

wmctrl -m | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2

rbh · 2020-12-11 20:37:05

How do you manage the need to run as root or with sudo, when in conky?

ohnonot · 2020-12-11 21:17:02

rbh wrote:

How do you manage the need to run as root or with sudo, when in conky?

It comes down to being able to execute commands with superuser privileges without the need of entering a password (interactively).
Several approaches exist: with PAM I guess, or with adding certain commands to your sudoers config files under /etc.
For the latter, see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Su … le_entries

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