From 998ee399e5501294b4a85fc643bede4a947ff8ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Bocken <alexander@bocken.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 16:04:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] only prints new articles if newsboat is closed

---
 .local/bin/statusbar/news | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.local/bin/statusbar/news b/.local/bin/statusbar/news
index 96723ae..56a0939 100755
--- a/.local/bin/statusbar/news
+++ b/.local/bin/statusbar/news
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-num=$( cat /tmp/newsupdate 2>/dev/null || echo "$(newsboat -x print-unread | awk '{ print $1}' | sed s/^0$//g)$(cat ~/.config/newsboat/.update 2>/dev/null)")
-[ "$num" = "" ] || printf "📰%s" "$num"
-printf '\n'
+num="$(newsboat -x print-unread | cut -f1 -d ' ' )"
+if  ! pgrep newsboat > /dev/null ; then
+	[ "$num" = "" ] || printf "📰%s" "$num"
+	printf '\n'
+fi