On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 02:43:30PM -0700, Lang Hurst wrote:
> I use the following procmail script to make festival speak the FROM and
> SUBJECT headings of new email through my speakers:
>
> SUBJECT=`formail -xSubject: \
> | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`
> SENDER=`formail -xFrom: \
> | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`
> :0c
> | echo "New mail from " $SENDER ". the subject is " $SUBJECT | festival --tts
>
> That works great. However I am often listening to my vorbis collection.
> When my music is playing and a new email comes in, the festival output just
> gets garbled with the music. I would like to set up a procmail script that
> says
>
> if xmms is playing:
> xmms -u #pause xmms
>
> process new email
>
> if xmms was playing:
> xmms -p #start playing again
>
> I just don't know how to test for a process, and the two books I have on the
> subject are too basic, or I'm missing the page. Any help appreciated.
This is a little ugly, but it should work:
:0
| pid=`ps -ef | grep ^$USER | grep -v grep | grep xmms`; \
if [ "X$pid" != "X" ]; then echo ... | festival --tts; fi
Fill in the ... with the whole echo command above, of course. $USER
should be your user name, if it's not already set.
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