esdmon

esdmon

The esdmon command is used to monitor the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD). ESD is a sound server that can be used to play sound files on Linux and Unix-like systems.

For example, to monitor the default device in text format, you would use the following command:

esdmon -f text

To list all of the available devices, you would use the following command:

esdmon -l

help

esdmon [options]

Monitor the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD).

Options:

-f, --format=FORMAT   Set the format of the output.
-d, --device=DEVICE   Set the device to monitor.
-l, --list            List all of the available devices.
-h, --help            Show this help message.

Monitors the specified device using ESD. If no device is specified, the default device is used.

breakdown

-f, --format=FORMAT: This option specifies the format of the output. The supported formats are:
text: Text output
json: JSON output
-d, --device=DEVICE: This option specifies the device that you want to monitor. The default device is default.
-l, --list: This option lists all of the available devices.
-h, --help: This option shows this help message.