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# Volsv
#### What is it?
Volsv is a POSIX-compliant shell script I wrote in 2020, and have been modifying since. Presently, it supports:
- Increasing volume
- Decreasing volume
- Toggling the interface mute
- Toggling the microphone mute\*
in both pulseaudio and ALSA\*. Once I get OpenBSD and FreeBSD up and running, I will add those sound options too.
It depends on:
- pamixer (pulseaudio)
- amixer (alsa)
- pgrep (with the -x command, standard in BSD and \*/Linux systems)
#### But *why* though?
I made volsv so that I could use it with keybindings to control the volume, regardless of whether or not I was running pulseaudio, since I dislike pulseaudio and tend to avoid it when possible. This means I can have a consistent keybinding, whether or not I'm using it. Additionally, this would give me less keybindings to have to port to OpenBSD, which I occasionally install from time to time, although I haven't booted into it since I started writing this script. Additionally, it has provided a fun learning experience as I learn to write scripts.
\*Volsv does not yet support muting the microphone in ALSA.
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