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your terminal sings

Terminal - your terminal sings
echo {1..199}" bottles of beer on the wall, cold bottle of beer, take one down, pass it around, one less bottle of beer on the wall,, " | espeak -v english -s 140
2010-02-04 04:38:52
User: op4
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My version:

(g=echo;s=s;n="o more";o="bottle";e="of beer";a="Take one down and pass it around";w="on the wall";for ((i=99;i>0;i--));do [ $i == 1 ]&&unset s;$g -n "$i $o$s $e $w, $i $o$s $e. $a, `[ $[i-1] != 0 ]&&$g $[i-1]||$g "n$n"` $o`[ $i != 2 ]&&$g s` $e $w. ";done;$g -ne "N$n ${o}s $e $w, n$n ${o}s $e. Go to the store and buy some more, 99 ${o}s $e $w.")|espeak -v english -s 140
Comment by eightmillion 171 weeks and 2 days ago

Para los hispanoparlantes:

echo {1..199}" elefantes se balanceaban sobre la tela de una ara?a, como ve?an que no se ca?an, fueron a llamar a otro elefante,, " | espeak -v spanish -s 140

Comment by kutus 171 weeks and 2 days ago

You're supposed to count down in hex...

Comment by SuperFly 171 weeks and 2 days ago

For OSX, substitute espeak with say:

(g=echo;s=s;n="o more";o="bottle";e="of beer";a="Take one down and pass it around";w="on the wall";for ((i=99;i>0;i--));do [ $i == 1 ]&&unset s;$g -n "$i $o$s $e $w, $i $o$s $e. $a, `[ $[i-1] != 0 ]&&$g $[i-1]||$g "n$n"` $o`[ $i != 2 ]&&$g s` $e $w. ";done;$g -ne "N$n ${o}s $e $w, n$n ${o}s $e. Go to the store and buy some more, 99 ${o}s $e $w.")| say

Comment by antic 171 weeks and 2 days ago

... you just made my day really average.... remind me to post this on MLIA :)

Comment by GinoMan2440 171 weeks and 2 days ago

echo "salue, amice, ut uales?" | espeak -v latin -s 140

Comment by bubo 171 weeks and 1 day ago

Sing it in Hexadecimal:

s=s;n="o more";o="bottle";e="of beer";a="Take one down and pass it around";w="on the wall";for ((i=255;i>0;i--));

do [ $i == 1 ] && unset s; ihex=$(echo "obase=16; $i" | bc);

echo "$ihex $o$s $e $w, $ihex $o$s $e. $a, `[ $[i-1] != 0 ] && echo $(echo "obase=16; $[i-1]" | bc) || echo "n$n"` $o`[ $i != 2 ] && echo s` $e $w. ";done;echo -e "N$n ${o}s $e $w, n$n ${o}s $e. Go to the store and buy some more, FF ${o}s $e $w."

Comment by SuperFly 171 weeks and 1 day ago

This works better, but can we do it in less that 255 characters?

s=s;n="o more";o="bottle";e="of beer";a="Take one down and pass it around";w="on the wall";for ((i=255;i>0;i--));do [ $i == 1 ] && unset s;ihex=$(echo "obase=16; $i" | bc);echo "$ihex $o$s $e $w, $ihex $o$s $e. $a, `[ $[i-1] != 0 ] && echo $(echo "obase=16; $[i-1]" | bc) || echo "n$n"` $o`[ $i != 2 ] && echo s` $e $w. ";done;echo -e "N$n ${o}s $e $w, n$n ${o}s $e. Go to the store and buy some more, FF ${o}s $e $w."

Comment by SuperFly 171 weeks and 1 day ago
echo {99..1}" bottles...
Comment by dennisw 171 weeks ago

As Antic said, on the mac substitute "espeak" with "say", but add the Cellos voice:

echo {1..199}" bottles of beer on the wall, cold bottle of beer, take one down, pass it around, one less bottle of beer on the wall.. " | say -v Cellos

Here a list of other voices you can play with on a mac:

Female Voices

say -v Agnes "hello world" say -v Kathy "hello world" say -v Princess "hello world" say -v Vicki "hello world" say -v Victoria "hello world"

Male Voices

say -v Bruce "hello world" say -v Fred "hello world" say -v Junior "hello world" say -v Ralph "hello world"

Novelty Voices

say -v Albert "hello world" say -v "Bad News" "hello world" say -v Bahh "hello world" say -v Bells "hello world" say -v Boing "hello world" say -v Bubbles "hello world" say -v Cellos "hello world" say -v Deranged "hello world" say -v "Good News" "hello world" say -v Hysterical "hello world" say -v "Pipe Organ" "hello world" say -v Trinoids "hello world" say -v Whisper "hello world" say -v Zarvox "hello world"
Comment by netsaint 170 weeks and 5 days ago

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