Commands tagged seek (1)

  • OSX: Use Say Command to Help You Play Hide-and-Seek

    Hide-and-Seek is one of the greatest games in the parent's arsenal. Your kid runs off and hides for several minutes, while waiting for you to find him/her. This gives you time to catch a breath and check your email without feeling like a loser. If you'd also like to take advantage of the counting time--claiming that thinking space as your own--use this command on your OSX terminal to maximize downtime. Also, if your kid is like mine, you can get away with "for i in {1..100};" :)


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    txt="";for i in {1..20};do txt=$txt"$i. ";done;say $txt" Ready or not, here I come"
    antic · 2011-12-11 05:51:22 27

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