Question

I am trying to make a simple bash script which prints out the path of current song in MPD.

while [ 1 ]
do
    mpc idle
    track=$(mpc current | awk -F " - " '{print $2}')
    echo $track

    path_to_track=$(mpc search title "$track")
    echo $path_to_track

    "$path_to_track" >> /home/noob/MPDPlaylist/testplaylist.m3u

done

Now, the problem is as soon as my script tries to appenf the value of path_to_track to the file it generates the below error

player
Skin To Bone
Linkin Park/Living Things(2012)/09 - Linkin Park - Skin To Bone.mp3
test.sh: line 8: Linkin Park/Living Things(2012)/09 - Linkin Park - Skin To Bone.mp3: No such file or directory

Now, what am I doing wrong here. As you can see in the above code I already tried adding double quotes .

Answer 1

Right now you’re trying to execute your mp3 files. You probably wanted to echo that:

echo "$path_to_track" >> /home/noob/MPDPlaylist/testplaylist.m3u