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If VLC is running, playing a movie at file path X, is there any way I can know what file path X is from a Bash script? (For simplicity's sake we can assume that only one instance of VLC is running.)
Update: I now know this can be done using the following methods. Are there other ways, perhaps a way of asking VLC directly?
lsof (All Unix)That's an easy one
osascript -e 'tell application "VLC" to get path of current item'
That returns the path to the currently playing movie. If you want more I suggest you select "Open Dictionary.." in the File menu of "Script Editor", select VLC and have a good look. Then do man osascript on the command line for the man page of osascript.
Unix & Linux suggests a generic way using lsof:
lsof -wc VLC | awk '$4~"[0-9]r" && $5=="REG"' | grep -o '/.*'
This method includes a couple of system files too, but these can be easily removed with grep.
