Hello, This works in my case: sox -n stat 2>&1 >/dev/null | grep Rough | awk '{print $3}' More elegant solutions may exist... M0 On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 4:06 AM William D DeGraw via Sox-users < sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > So, I’m using ‘sox -n stat’ to obtain the “rough > frequency” value. I, however, just need this number and want to pipe the > output outside of sox. …How exactly do I accomplish this objection? –I’ve > been fruitlessly and exhaustively searching the internet for an answer. > -Dylan > > _______________________________________________ > Sox-users mailing list > Sox-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sox-users >