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		zimpenfish on May 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OS X Command Line Utilities I used `say` to read out the cricket scores from a screenscraping bot whilst the TV (which was the radio at the time) was in use for games. Not quite TMS but it had a certain charm.

pavel_lishin on May 15, 2014 [–]

Whenever I had to run something that would take awhile, I would append '; say "YOUR THING IS DONE"' to the end so I'd be aware of when it finished.

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