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• 04.07.10
  Setting a Timer scripts | rafacas | (3)

  Sometimes I need a timer to focus on something and to alert me when to stop. Remember, we are real commandliners, so we do not want those fancy applications with a lot of features, we need a script ;-) so here it is: #!/bin/bash usage() { name=`basename $0` echo "Usage: $name hh:mm:ss" echo "Example: $name \"00:15:30\"" } if [ $# != 1 ] then usage exit fi IFS=: set -- $* secs=$(( ${1#0} * 3600 + ${2#0} * 60 + ${3#0} )) while [ $secs -gt 0 ] do sleep 1 & printf "\r%02d:%02d:%02d" ...

  Tagged: basename, beep, countdown, exit, if, IFS, POSIX, printf, say, set, sleep, wait, while
  
• 10.19.08
  Your Mac terminal can sing fun | rafacas | (0)

  Typing say something into your Mac's terminal will literally make your Mac say something. The UsingMac blog posts a quick tip with this Mac built-in voice, so you can make your Mac sing. Copy and paste the following to the command line to check out your terminal "singing" ability. say -v Good oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Get more terminal songs at Terminal sings songs (UsingMac) I know, this is not very useful, but it is fun :)

  Tagged: osx, say