i3bar multiple instances of script.

asked 2015-11-29 17:29:40 +0000

psf
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updated 2015-11-30 17:16:12 +0000

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.