30 June 2008

How to make you Mac sing to you

There's a bunch of useful commands that you can use on Mac OS X's Terminal, but I guess that few are as interesting and funny as "say". Besides using it to have you Mac say anything, you can use the "say" command to play some simple tunes.

For example, paste the following command on Terminal (Mac OS X's console):

say -v Good oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Nice, hum? But it feels a bit boring without lyrics, right? Try the following command then:

osascript -e 'say "oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So why keep you listening listening listening while you are supposed to work to work to work to work its because i hate my job hate my job hate my job its because i hate my job more than anything else No its because youve no life youve no life youve no life and you better go get one after forwarding this crap" using "cellos"'

Wow! :-)

Source: Using Mac

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