[SOLVED] amixer output problem

[pawRoot]

Thanks to you both, HOAS method works aswell.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

If you plan to use the command in conky then it's best to use as few commands and pipes as possible so as to save on memory usage and processor cycles — conky can use up a significant proportion of your CPU capability if you make it run enough commands every clock tick.

[pawRoot]

Here is my config

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out_to_x no
out_to_console yes
update_interval 1

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  ${mem} / ${memmax}    \
  ${downspeedf enp2s0} / ${upspeedf enp2s0}KiB    \
  ${apcupsd_charge}    \
  ${fs_used} / ${fs_size}    \
  ${exec dpkg --list | wc --lines}    \
  ${time}    \
  ${exec amixer get Master | awk -F'[' '/Left:/{gsub("]","");print $2}'}

[Head_on_a_Stick]

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${exec dpkg --list | wc --lines}

The output of `dpkg --list` includes some lines not related to installed packages, this will give the correct figure:

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${exec dpkg --list | grep -c ^i}

^ grep can count

[pawRoot]

^ Thanks