say-what

Steps

1. Open a terminal
2. Clone and execute the script (single command):

git clone https://github.com/opacicmarko/say-what && ./say-what/say.sh

Stopping the script

To stop the script you need to kill the script process:

1. List running processes

ps -A | grep say

2. Find the ID of the process in question

  PID TTY           TIME CMD
26115 ttys000    0:00.00 /bin/bash ./say-what/say.sh       <-- THE say.sh process

3. Kill the process using the PID

kill 26115

Customization

There are two arguments you can provide to the script:

• MESSAGE - the message that will be passed to say to be read out loud.
• INITIAL_TIMEOUT - the time to sleep before entering the say loop.

The arguments are provided without any keywords:

./say.sh <MESSAGE> <INITIAL_TIMEOUT>

Example:

./say.sh "ha ha" 10

Note that because of the argument order, the timeout cannot be provided without a custom message. The default timeout is set to 60 seconds.

Troubleshooting

If the script is not executing, run this command before executing the script again:

chmod +x say-what/say.sh