CLI on Linux

[rolfb]

Hi all,

I have a simple question, but can't seem to find the answer:
I run squeezeboxserver on a Linux host.
I want to write a small (bash) script that queries for the song "now playing".
How to ask that in Bash?
What's the general syntax, and what calls are valid?

Thanks,
rolf

[pski]

Hi all,

I have a simple question, but can't seem to find the answer:
I run squeezeboxserver on a Linux host.
I want to write a small (bash) script that queries for the song "now playing".
How to ask that in Bash?
What's the general syntax, and what calls are valid?

Thanks,
rolf

In the webUI, go to Help/Technical Information/The Squeezebox Server Command Line Interface. At the top of the screen is a link to go directly to the command index.

Your script would probably pipe input to a telnet command that would pipe output to a file. The script could then grep for the result and display it.

P

[peterw]

Your script would probably pipe input to a telnet command that would pipe output to a file. The script could then grep for the result and display it.

s/telnet/nc/

Bash seems terribly primitive, especially since inputs & outputs to the CLI are URI-encoded. I'd recommend using a scripting language that has good web libraries, maybe Perl or Python.