[Gllug] How to schedule a sound

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Mon Jun 9 15:05:25 UTC 2003


On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:59:09PM +0100, Garry Heaton wrote:
> I need to set my crontab to create an audible alert every 20mins. to remind
> me to do a neck & shoulder exercise. Can't find any info on generating a
> system 'beep'. Any ideas?

locate .wav

play /some/random/wave/file.wav

Rich.

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