Sometime workaholic people, don't even realize what time it is, though there is a clock in corner of every OS. So on idea of Mr. Arpit, I made a twitter bot called @GhantaGhar which tweet time every 30 minutes(in IST).
Recently I see replies of @GhantaGhar's account and found that many people want some software which can give them hint or buzz them at certain period.
So here is the simple solution for the same:
I'm assuming you should have knowledge about following :
- Editing file in shell
- Basic shell scripting knowledge.
- About cron job
- Installing package
- Working sound card
To start with first make sure you have “espeak” package install. It may be available via your package manager or you can download it from http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
After perfect install, test espeak by passing following command
$ echo "hello world" | espeak -v en+m4
After that, lets create a shell file containing command. Create time.sh (obviously you can change file name with your's :P)
Add following lines
!#/bin/bash echo "Hi user its" $(date +%I\ %M\ %p) | espeak -v en+f5
save the file and next step will be editing your cron job by following command
$ crontab -eu username
replace username with your username, then add following lines
*/30 * * * * /bin/bash /path/to/script/time.sh &> /dev/null
save the crontab file
And yes it will do inform you time every 30 minutes.
Just a hint, you can even add notification for every 30 minutes, just search for required commands 😉
