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OSX Cron job to whisper Rick Astley lyrics (for quick access http://bit.ly/r-cron)
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cron-whisper-rick-roll.sh
*/5 * * * * say -v whisper "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down. Never gonna run around and desert you. Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you"
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chadmaughan commented Aug 17, 2016 •
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Try all out all the "voices"

for v in `say -v '?' | awk -F' ' '{print $1}'`; do echo $v; say -v $v "never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down"; done

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Some of my favorites

  • Albert
  • Bahh
  • Hysterical
  • Trinoids
  • Whisper

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Modify the crontab in a single step from the command line:

curl -sL bit.ly/e-cron | crontab -

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