I was looking for a way to change the volume using the multimedia keys on my keyboard. There are quite a few programms that should do the job, but all of them where running as a daemon (background process). In my opinion this is unneccesary because I need to raise/lower/mute the volume only once in a while. Therefore I wrote a quick’n'dirty bash script using ALSA’s amixer and the osd_cat utility.

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