#/bin/sh prefix=$1 suffix=$2 while [ true ]; do echo -n "$prefix" volume=$( pulseaudio-ctl | grep 'Volume level' | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ' \ | sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]//g" ) echo -n $volume echo -n "$suffix" echo sleep 1 done