Pass conky object to external script

[sirfoga]

I have a conky object, and I want to pass it as parameter of a bash / lua script. How do I do it?

Example:

conky object: ${tcp_portmon 1 61000 lport 0} i.e the port of the first tcp connection

script: $ lsof -i :<PORT> | sed -n 2p | awk '{print $1}' i.e finds the process with that port

What I tried (unsuccessfully):

• ${exec lsof -i :${tcp_portmon 1 61000 lport 0} | sed -n 2p | awk '{print $1}'}
• ${exec echo $(lsof -i :${tcp_portmon 1 61000 lport 0} | sed -n 2p | awk '{print $1}')}
• ${lua conky_proc_port ${tcp_portmon 1 61000 lport 0}}, where conky_proc_port simply outputs the parameter

How do I do it?

PS: for reference, here is the link to the Stackoverflow question

[varingst]

If all you want is to see what conky evaluates the expression to, you can create a conkyrc that only outputs to console, and run conky only one tick:

$ conky -i 1 -c special_conkyrc -t '${tcp_portmon 1 61000 lport 0}'

That said, conky is almost certainly the wrong tool for the job here. Try ss -tnp or netstat -tnp

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