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Get the name of current audio device
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| #!/bin/env zsh | |
| pactl --format=json list cards |jq -c '.[] | select (.name | contains('\"$(pactl --format=json info | jq . |jq ".default_sink_name" | cut -d"." -f2)\"'))?' | jq '.properties."device.description"' | xargs -n 1 echo "Audio Device: " |
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One liner that uses pactl and jq to get the "device name" for the current audio devices. It takes advadage of pactl json output option and jq's superior json manipulation capabilities