What can I do with Terminal...

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

Any questions, hints or tips you have please post here...
 
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Re: How can I say something with a delay

How can I say something with a delay, so that my computer will say the message out loud in about 10 seconds.
thx in advance

found out no need anymore
 
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For those of you following this thread, you can do this with an AppleScript.
 

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you can use the say command to speak words and the sleep command to pause.

eg

sleep 10 ; say "something"
 

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