https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:26:58 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7500/i3bar-multiple-instances-of-script/Hey all, First of all, my English isn't good so I apologize if something is misspelled. :( So, I wrote a small script to pipe some informations to i3status/i3bar. The script is below. My question is, if I do "ps aux | grep /bin/sh" I get 4 instances of my script (I believe 2 for each bar - cuz I have two monitors). There is a reason why 4 instances?Shouldn't it be just two of them? #!/bin/sh # Global variables show_caps=NULL show_num=NULL show_aur=NULL show_pacman=NULL show_public=NULL # Functions get_caps() { if [ "$(xset -q | grep Caps | awk '{print $4}')" = "on" ]; then show_caps="{\"color\": \"#cd626d\", \"full_text\": \"Caps: On\"}" else show_caps="{\"full_text\": \"Caps: Off\"}" fi } get_num() { if [ "$(xset -q | grep Num | awk '{print $8}')" = "on" ]; then show_num="{\"color\": \"#cd626d\", \"full_text\": \"Num: On\"}" else show_num="{\"full_text\": \"Num: Off\"}" fi } get_updates() { if [ "$(cat ~/.config/hasupdatecower)" = "1" ]; then show_aur="{\"color\": \"#cd626d\", \"full_text\": \"AUR: Yes\"}" else show_aur="{\"full_text\": \"AUR: No\"}" fi if [ "$(cat ~/.config/hasupdatepacman)" = "1" ]; then show_pacman="{\"color\": \"#cd626d\", \"full_text\": \"Pacman: Yes\"}" else show_pacman="{\"full_text\": \"Pacman: No\"}" fi } get_publicip() { gets_ip=$(cat ~/Drive/System/my_ip | awk '{print "IP: "$8}') show_public="{\"full_text\": \"${gets_ip}\"}" } #echo '{"version":1}' #echo '[' #echo '[]' # i3status output (JSON) i3status | while : do read line get_caps #get_num get_updates #get_publicip show_status="[$show_pacman,$show_aur,$show_caps," #echo ",[$show_public,$show_pacman,$show_cower,$show_caps,$show_num]" || exit 1 echo "${line/[/$show_status}" || exit 1 done # END My i3's configuration file has: `status_command ~/Programming/Shell/i3more.sh` Output of "ps aux | grep /bin/sh": pedrofr+ 5430 0.0 0.0 13616 3004 ? S 15:27 0:00 /bin/sh /home/pedrofreitas/Programming/Shell/i3more.sh pedrofr+ 5431 0.0 0.0 13616 3132 ? S 15:27 0:00 /bin/sh /home/pedrofreitas/Programming/Shell/i3more.sh pedrofr+ 5433 0.0 0.0 13620 2728 ? S 15:27 0:00 /bin/sh /home/pedrofreitas/Programming/Shell/i3more.sh pedrofr+ 5435 0.0 0.0 13620 2820 ? S 15:27 0:00 /bin/sh /home/pedrofreitas/Programming/Shell/i3more.sh Unfortunately I can't post link, so the output isn't formatted. Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:27:13 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7500/i3bar-multiple-instances-of-script/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7500/i3bar-multiple-instances-of-script/?comment=7519#comment-7519Maybe try to kill them one by one and see what will happen.Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:26:58 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7500/i3bar-multiple-instances-of-script/?comment=7519#comment-7519