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

• Create a 5 MB blank file via a seek hole

  Similar to the original, but is much faster since it only needs to write the last byte as zero. A diff on testfile and testfile.seek will return that they are the same.

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  dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile.seek seek=5242879 bs=1 count=1
  PhillipNordwall · 2011-04-04 17:56:47 3
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• Play Mediafile in multipart RAR archive on the fly with buffer to seek back and forth

  Fire this up in the directory of the RAR achived files to watch any archived movie tv-show or other media without having to unpack it. I also added a cache/buffer to be able to seek back and forth.

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  unrar p -inul *.rar|mplayer -cache 100000 -
  B4ckBOne · 2013-09-19 18:45:01 0
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• Tune your guitar from the command line.

  This command, taken from play's manual page, plays a synthesized guitar tone for each of the strings on a standard tuned guitar. The command "play" is a part of the package "sox".

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  for n in E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4;do play -n synth 4 pluck $n repeat 2;done
  eightmillion · 2009-12-13 06:57:26 5
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• play high-res video files on a slow processor

  Certain codecs in high res don't play so well on my Dell Mini 9. Using this command, I can play just about anything and it keeps the sound in sync to boot!

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  mplayer -framedrop -vfm ffmpeg -lavdopts lowres=1:fast:skiploopfilter=all
  baergaj · 2009-04-27 15:40:55 0
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and, just added this to my .bash_aliases, which is conveniently backed up via symlink and replicated across multiple machines with Dropbox :) alias seek='txt="";for i in {1..20};do txt=$txt"$i. ";done;txt=$txt" Ready or not, here I come";say $txt' Now I can just type "seek" :)

antic · 340 weeks and 6 days ago

for i in {1..20}; do espeak "$i"; done; espeak "Ready or not, here I come" Linux/bash version. espeak needs to be installed

unixmonkey25543 · 340 weeks and 6 days ago

Or, a shorter version: for i in {1..2};do say "$i. ";done;say Ready or not, here I come I just have a habit of writing code that only invokes a program one time if it can help it :)

sleepdepninja · 340 weeks and 5 days ago

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