Re: at based alarm.
On Sat, 10 Feb 2018, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
Given a file named wake containing this script, an alarm can be started with at.
at -f wake 6:30
How can the xterm be started with std{in,out,err} connected there?
Thanks, ... Peter E.
By the way, it looks to me that the shell interpreter you invoke
here...
#!/bin/sh
...is not bash, but probably dash. Is it your intent to call bash
instead?
xterm
input=""
I ask about your intent above because this next line...
until [[ $input != "" ]] ; do
...employs the new-fangled Korn shell/Bash conditional test '[[',
instead of the old-fangled test builtin '['.
During a brief search of the dash man page, I didn't find any mention
of '[['. Just '['.
echo Beginning until loop.
/usr/bin/play /home/peter/ring.wav
read -n 1 -t 4 input
done
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