#!/bin/sh # shell script to prepend i3status with more stuff i3status | while : do read line MPCSTAT=`mpc | grep -v '^volume:'` if [ -z "${MPCSTAT}" ]; then echo "$line" || exit 1 else MPCSTAT=`echo "${MPCSTAT}" | sed 's, *, ,g; 1h;1d;2G' | paste -d' ' -s -` echo "${MPCSTAT} | $line" || exit 1 fi done