Rewrites the Adium sound preferences file to mute all sounds.

muteAdium.sh

#!/bin/sh

# It's still a bit quick and dirty, and is only tested on Snow Leopard.

adium_sound_settings_path="/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/Sounds.plist"
temp_file_path="/tmp/muteadium_tmp.xml"

if [ ! -r "$adium_sound_settings_path" -a ! -w "$adium_sound_settings_path" ]; then
	echo "Unable to read/write settings file."
	exit 1
fi

plutil -convert xml1 -o "$temp_file_path" -- "$adium_sound_settings_path"

awk '
BEGIN { FS = "[<|>]" }
{
	if ($2 == "real") {
		sub($3, 0)
	}
	print > "/tmp/muteadium_tmp.xml"
}
' "$temp_file_path"

plutil -convert binary1 -o "$adium_sound_settings_path" -- "$temp_file_path"
rm "$temp_file_path"

killall Adium > /dev/null 2>&1

if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
	/Applications/Adium.app/Contents/MacOS/Adium &
fi

echo "Done!"