How to add an audio file to a shell script

With the following script it works (using mplayer, which is probably not present on many systems).

#!/bin/sh
grep -A 1000 --text -m 1 ^Ogg "$0" | mplayer -
exit
OggS^@^B^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^]f<8a>g^@^@^@^@lY߸^A^^^Avorbis^@^@^@^@^A"V^@^@^...

The last line is the beginning of the audio file binary.

The grep command searches for the first occurrence of Ogg in the file $0 (which is the script file itself) and prints 1000 lines after that line (is enough for my small audio test file). The output of grep is then piped to mplayer which is reading /dev/stdin (abbreviation for /dev/stdin is -).

I have created this file by concatenating the script file playmeBashScript.sh with the audio file sound.ogg:

cat playmeBashScript.sh sound.ogg > playme.sh

A more general and a bit shorter version with sed instead of grep (thanks to Elias):

#!/bin/sh
sed 1,/^exit$/d "$0" | mplayer -
exit
OggS^@^B^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^]f<8a>g^@^@^@^@lY߸^A^^^Avorbis^@^@^@^@^A"V^@^@^...

In this case sed selects all lines from number one up to the line where it finds the word exit and deletes them. The rest is pasted and piped to mplayer. Of course that only works if the word exit occurs only once in the script before the binary data.