#!/bin/sh # You might notice all mpv commands are aliased to have this input-ipc-server # thing. That's just for this particular command, which allows us to pause # every single one of them with one command! This is bound to super + shift + p # (with other things) by default and is used in some other places. for i in $(ls /tmp/mpvSockets/*); do echo '{ "command": ["set_property", "pause", true] }' | socat - "$i" done