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      11th November 2005
Well hopefully we will write a few articles that will show you how 'powerful' Shell Programming can be...

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      20th July 2008
How can I say something with a delay, so that my computer will say the message out loud in about 10 seconds.
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found out no need anymore

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      21st July 2008
For those of you following this thread, you can do this with an AppleScript.
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      17th November 2011
you can use the say command to speak words and the sleep command to pause.

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sleep 10 ; say "something"
 
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