From 968d85442683cf12a47e91e14ca74927b1055029 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gardouille <gardouille@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:33:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Pulseaudio script to move stream to choosen sink

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 move.pulseaudio.sink | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 move.pulseaudio.sink

diff --git a/move.pulseaudio.sink b/move.pulseaudio.sink
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..806f9d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/move.pulseaudio.sink
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# `pacmd set-default-sink` doesn't want to work on my computer,
+# so this small script will move all playback stream to the choosen sink.
+
+# Thanks to mreithub - https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/67398
+
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+	echo "Usage: $0 <sinkId/sinkName>" >&2
+	echo "Valid sinks:" >&2
+	pactl list short sinks >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+newSink="$1"
+
+pactl list short sink-inputs|while read stream; do
+	streamId=$(echo $stream|cut '-d ' -f1)
+	echo "moving stream $streamId"
+	pactl move-sink-input "$streamId" "$newSink"
+done
+
+exit 0