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Mac-only (1)   malicious (5)   random (8)   say command (1)   text-to-speech (2)   voices (1)  
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By David
Updated about 1 year ago (24 Feb 2009 at 12:40 PM) recent activity
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In Brief Says something scary every hour with a random voice. If run in the background the terminal can be closed and it will keep going.... more
Language (Ba)sh
# 's 
 1#!/bin/bash
 2
 3while true; do
 4  let "choice = $RANDOM % 4"
 5  case $choice in
 6    0) voice='Albert';;
 7    1) voice='Deranged';;
 8    2) voice='Hysterical';;
 9    3) voice='Whisper'
10  esac
11
12  say -v $voice 'Look behind you'
13  sleep 3600
14done

Says something scary every hour with a random voice. If run in the background the terminal can be closed and it will keep going.

Sorry kids, this one is mac only :-/

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about 1 year ago (05 Mar 2009 at 11:43 PM) by Stou S.
Ok I would normally give this a 2 because it's Mac-only but it is pretty clever none-the-less so I am giving it a 3 instead.
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about 1 year ago (05 Mar 2009 at 11:48 PM) by Stou S.
ah! excuse the hyphens
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