Re: looking for a clock, minimum and can play sound

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:11:24 +0000, Camaleón wrote:

>> Hello. I am looking for an count-down clock. Features are:
> 
> (...)
> 
> If you find no aplication that suits your needs, may I suggest a "do-
> it-yourself" work? :-)
> 
> Dialog (command line ncurses scripting) and xdialog (GUI) can help you
> here.

The following shell script will work:

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#!/bin/sh
sleep $1
beep
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name it 'alarm' and 'alarm 30' will alarm you after 30 seconds. 





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