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Thank you for the suggestion. I tried it out but it also seems like it hangs. In the activity monitor I can see the two vlc instances but also a sh (shell) for each echo command I have send. When I add bash it replaces the sh instances with bash. Does this mean I am trying to execute scripts in wron...

I am using this both on my macosx and linux and it works well. On linux the shell commands are slightly different: vlc -I oldrc --rc-unix=/home/user/Documents/Sockets/socket1.sock vlc -I oldrc --rc-unix=/home/user/Documents/Sockets/socket2.sock and echo play | nc -U /home/user/Documents/Sockets/sock...

Found the solution: it seemed like there was no file because in os x 10.10.3 the vlc.sock file is not visible, even with hidden files shown (probably because it is 0 bytes)

Hello, I want to script a program to control VLC through remote control with a socket. In the preferences tab under interface I can set a directory to create a socket file, vlc.sock in my case. This works perfectly on my old mac with os x 10.6.8, but on my newer mac with os x 10.10.5 no socket file ...