How do I display custom shell result?

[YohannesTz]

Hi, I know the shell module exists but was not able to make it work for my needs. (skill issue 😅)

The command I wanted to show the result of looks like this:

alias cpu_temp="echo \"CPU: \$(sensors | grep 'Core 0' | awk '{print \$3}')\""

which I have added to my zshrc. now doing cpu_temp results the following:

now in my i3config I have this:

bar {
        font pango:Inconsolata 10
        position top
        tray_output none
        status_command bumblebee-status -m memory battery time \
    shell brightness pasink pasource -p time.format="%a %e %b %Y - %I:%M %p" brightness.step="5%" shell.command="cpu_temp" -t solarized-powerline
}

which fails to show the result and exit with "cpu_temp exited with code 127"

I was able to make it work for uptime but not sure what I am doing wrong here.

any help is appreciated! 🙏

[tobi-wan-kenobi]

I do not know exactly which shell Python uses, but I suspect aliases simply don't work.

Can you try creating a shell script instead, make it executable and executing this with its absolute path?