----- Original Message ---- > From: Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> > To: CentOS ML <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:55:03 PM > Subject: [CentOS] Question on script > > Hi all, > > I am trying to extract from the aplay -l output the Card and Device numbers. > I had a script that was working but found another motherboard that has > an EXTRA word. > HDA Nvidia and HDA ATI HDMI is what I am talking about below. > > how do I search for a line that has HDMI (which I know how to do), then > ignore everything upto the device work and take the next field after that? > > Thanks, > > Jerry > > I was doing this but it does not work for both cases. > AUDIO_HDMI=`aplay -l | grep -c HDMI` > if [ "$AUDIO_HDMI" -ge 1 ] > then > AUDIO_DEVICE=`aplay -l | grep HDMI | grep " device " | > grep -m 1 -v "device 0" | tr -d ':' | cut -d ' ' -f 8` > AUDIO_CARD=`aplay -l | grep HDMI | grep " device " | > grep -m 1 -v "device 0" | tr -d ':' | cut -d ' ' -f 2` > sed "0,/hw:/s/hw:.*/hw:$AUDIO_CARD,$AUDIO_DEVICE\"/" < > /etc/asound.conf > tt.txt > mv tt.txt /etc/asound.conf > > > card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 3: NVIDIA HDMI [NVIDIA HDMI] > Subdevices: 1/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 > > card 2: HDMI [HDA ATI HDMI], device 3: ATI HDMI [ATI HDMI] > Subdevices: 0/1 > Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Maybe you will be inspired by: aplay -l | grep HDMI | tr ":," "\n" | grep "^card\|^ device" | awk ' { print $2 } ' 0 3 2 3 JD