#MAC TERMINAL CUSTOM POWER CHIME PLUS#
#MAC TERMINAL CUSTOM POWER CHIME MAC#

So I'll go to the end here, i for insert, delete all of this, and then I'll give it a path to that file. So now I can edit the Cron and change the command here from playing this sound to using my shell script. chmod 755 to make it executable chime.sh. You can see there I forgot to set permissions for it. If I do period slash chime.sh and I'll test it out. Now if I do LS to list the directory there I see everything that's in my Documents folder including that chime.sh. Now I'm going to do i to paste in this with command v and then I'm going to Esc colon w q, and it writes it out. So we're going to go to our Documents folder and then I'm going to create this file by typing vi to edit directly and calling it chime.sh for shell script. We have to create a special shell script to do that. So let's copy that and you think we should be able to paste that directly into that Crontab. So we can do, for instance, (voice says 10:53). You can try these out by using this command again but with another one. If you do Say -v and space ? you get a list of all the voices. We can say dash v (-v) to give it a different voice.

We can furthermore go and do something with the voice. Pipe is the character that's between the delete and Return key on your keyboard. So now we can actually have it say that by piping that same thing. This will print out the date in a format like that.

#MAC TERMINAL CUSTOM POWER CHIME PLUS#

So we could do date and then in quotes plus and then percent, lower case l, colon, percent, capital M. We could have that speak the time by using the Date command. So you could use the Say command to say anything. I'm going to Escape, colon, w, q, to exit. I could go and do Crontab -e again and I can hit the i key for insert again and I could add /10 after that for every ten minutes say or /15 for every fifteen minutes. There we go! So now we could modify this. Now let's wait for the minute to change and we'll hear the sound. To test it I can go and do Crontab-L and see what's there. I hit Return and I'm going to get this dialogue now saying that the Terminal wants to make a change here and I'm going to have to allow it to make a change to that Crontab. You can see at the bottom there is command. Now to Save this I hit the Escape key to exit insert mode. For a test here I'm going to have it do every minute and the command I'm just going to paste in there is that afplay command. If I wanted it to play every ten minutes I could do asterisk slash 10 and it would do it every ten minutes of every hour of every day, etc. If I wanted it to be only on, say, the 25th minute after an hour I could do 25 there and then it play it at 1:25, 2:25, etc. So five asterisks say basically play every minute of every hour of every day of every month of every day of the week. You can use an asterisk to represent any. The minute, the hour, the day, the month, and the day of the week. To add a line I'm going to do i, so press the i key for insert, and I'm going to type the command. This enters an editor, the vi editor, which allows us to add lines to this which will do things on a regular schedule. Now I'm going to setup the regular schedule for this command by typing Crontab dash e. So I'm going to select that and copy that. Now if I hit Return terminal will do what I want which is to play that sound. So I'm going to use the Morse one here and to put the path to that in there very easily I'm just going to drag and drop it into terminal and you can see it inserts the path. I'm going to go into Finder here and then go to the Computer level and in the Hard drive, System, Library, I can look for the Sounds folder. To get a sound to play we can find a sound we have on our hard drive or we can use one of the system sounds. To do that we're going to use the command afplay. What we're going to do is we're going to use something called Crontab which is the way commands run on a regular schedule. But if you want it to play a sound or wanted to do it every ten minutes or twenty minutes or something then you're going to have to create your own. That's fine if you want it to actually speak the time and you want to do it at one of those intervals. So in System Preferences, under Date & Time, Clock, you have the ability to set Announce the time and have it speak the time on the hour and half hour or quarter hour. Join us and get exclusive content at /patreon. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a community of supporters. Let's use the Terminal to create a custom chime for a Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.

#MAC TERMINAL CUSTOM POWER CHIME MAC#

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