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Created May 23, 2013 21:02
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Want to set an alarm via OS X terminal? It's easy, just use this!
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alarm.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Simple script for setting an alarm on Mac OS X
# Arguments are ./alarm.sh {hour} {minute}
until [ `date "+%H"` -eq $1 ] && [ `date "+%M"` -eq $2 ]; do
sleep 10
done
osascript -e 'set volume 7'
say -v Trinoids "WARNING WARNING WARNING"
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On an Ubuntu-flavored machine, the last two lines could be changed to:

amixer -c 0 set Speaker 100%
espeak "WARNING WARNING WARNING"

Though no promises that it works on your particular machine.

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