On Tue, 2018-08-28 at 15:06 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 08/28/18 14:06, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:36:11 -0400 > > Bob Goodwin wrote: > > > > > I would be happy typing a line inxterm that would run aplay > > > some.wav at > > > the end of the period. Can anyone tell me how to do that? > > > > Just in a terminal, this should work: > > > > sleep 600 ; aplay some.wav > > > > That will sleep for 600 seconds then play some.wav. The > > man page for sleep can give you details on how to specify > > different time units, etc. > > ___________________________ > > That's what I wanted to do, tried "$ sleep 2 ; aplay > /home/bobg/audio/login.wav" Works for me, simple to do, and I can > make > that do whatever I need. > > Thanks Tom and JD A "trick" I like to use in any command scripts I write is to have them tell me how to use them if I run them without any perimeters. Here is how that works, just need to add the line to play the sound file: #!/bin/sh if [ $# -lt 1 ];then echo echo "This script will alert you after X seconds." echo "Use:" echo 'eggtimer 5' echo exit 1 fi sleep $1 echo Done -- Doug H. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
