A simple reminder script for beginners to shell scripting.
(Apologies for any typos.)
Well hands up those who have been in the following situation(s):-
Your partner, (in my case the missus), sees that you are messing
with your machine and says something like, "can you keep an eye
on the dinner, I am going out shopping", and you look up glazed
eyed and say, "yes dear".
Sadly you forget and the dinner is burnt...
WW III is about to start... ;oD
Own up now, c'mon hands up!
Ah yes, nearly everyone. Those with their hands down cannot be
trusted... ;oD
The wife did just that to me and that gave me an idea, the
script below...
It is a piece of code that beginners could understand as a
practical and useful starting point to learn simple shell scripting.
It is called 'reminder' and generates a seriously annoying pop-up
every 30 to 300 seconds, programmable, with a reminder text of
your choice.
As a learning tool this script contains a lot of simple shell
stuff.
Arguments, variables, conditions, for loop, while loop, launching
another script, creating the script to launch, ANSI escape codes
to name but a few...
Written on OSX 10.7.5 default shell, tested on CygWin.
I am assuming it works on Linux flavours so just change the
script yourselves and notify this thread of your modifications;
IF there are any...
If you want this to work on CygWin then read the 'while true'
section and edit as required.
This is just superb for remembering your anniversary, the wife's
birthday, etc, etc, as it is SOOOO annoying...
This version is Public Domain and will not be uploaded anywhere
else.
The much simpler original is on 'code.activestate.com' also PD.
Enjoy finding simple solutions to often very difficult problems...
LBNL, for beginners, try and add a 1 second beeping sound for the
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