From 97becb02d2aa821d14077c3f0064000318a4ae71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: katherine <shmibs@shmibbles.me>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 23:33:54 -0700
Subject: uniq doesn't work for some reason x-x

so confused. does it wait to output things
when piping?
---
 .config/herbstluftwm/panel.sh | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to '.config/herbstluftwm')

diff --git a/.config/herbstluftwm/panel.sh b/.config/herbstluftwm/panel.sh
index 890bc96..66ecdde 100755
--- a/.config/herbstluftwm/panel.sh
+++ b/.config/herbstluftwm/panel.sh
@@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ fields[6]=""
 # date
 fields[7]="$(update_date)"
 
-
+unique_line() {
+	awk '$0 != l { print ; l=$0 ; fflush(); }' 
+}
 
 ######################
 #  EVENT GENERATORS  #
@@ -151,7 +153,7 @@ event_mpd() {
 			fi
 			mpc idle player >/dev/null 2>&1
 		fi
-	done > >(uniq)
+	done > >(unique_line)
 }
 
 event_stat() {
@@ -166,7 +168,7 @@ event_when() {
 			echo -e 'when\t1'
 		fi
 		sleep 10
-	done > >(uniq)
+	done > >(unique_line)
 }
 
 
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