Simple Alarm Clock

dudeman41465 · 10-10-2005, 02:12 AM

Look at this simple command for an alarm clock I found, haha.

sleep FOOh && watch -n 1 aplay /usr/share/sounds/gaim/redalert.wav

Just replace the "FOO" with a number that will equal the number of hours before it goes off, and replace the redalert.wav with your own personal sound file.

phil.d.g · 10-10-2005, 03:42 AM

You could alsu use cron to have an alarm go off ever <insert regular time interval here>

jlinkels · 10-12-2005, 09:40 AM

Or "at" if you want to wake up only once.

Now who invents the "snooze" button?

jlinkels

SlackerLX · 10-12-2005, 10:02 AM

nice command line! But I prefer xmms-alarm plugin

geeman2.0 · 10-12-2005, 11:40 AM

I like it!
It's slick.

SlackerLX · 10-12-2005, 11:47 AM

Code:

slackerlx@linux:~> sleep F01h && watch -n 1 aplay /usr/share/sounds/gaim/redalert.wav
sleep: invalid time interval `F01h'
slackerlx@linux:~>

Care to give ab example of using F00

geeman2.0 · 10-12-2005, 12:42 PM

I think you're taking him too literally.
Replace FOO with your number.

So use

Quote:

sleep 1h && watch -n 1 aplay /usr/share/sounds/gaim/redalert.wav

SlackerLX · 10-12-2005, 01:03 PM

tnx
Hmmm... I still think xmmx-alarm is better. Has exact time with minutes to set and playlist to choose. Starts sound with 25% and go up

Ahmed · 10-12-2005, 01:08 PM

I use KAlarm (from Gnome

). Never failed to wake me up, EVER.

(I sleep like a corpse)

-A

homey · 10-12-2005, 01:37 PM

I have my sweetums wake me up and she's not built like Tux either.

Kinda like that song...
Wake me up early, be good to my dogs and teach my children to pray....

neenee · 12-12-2005, 07:04 PM

i think the credit for that line up there goes to:

'jon "desplesda" manning" (http://www.ids.org.au/~jam6/?m=200507)

nice indeed though

SlackerLX · 10-06-2006, 11:33 PM

Well, actually built-in alarm script in Amarok works exclusively good.