Ring

Ring the alarm

ring is a simple console based alarm clock. It can be run from the shell, but also from the git-bash which comes with the git installation. So it can run on nearly any system that has git installed.

Usage:

ring [minutes to alarm] [alarm type]

e.g. alarm after 1 minute:

ring 1

Since the system signal tone is different on every system different signal forms are supported for [alarm type]:

[alarm type] = 0 : Default: All alarm types are used
[alarm type] = 1 : Uses terminal beep.
[alarm type] = 2 : 2 Usage of speech-dispatcher “spd-say”
[alarm type] = 3 : Visual output

Install

Clone it at any location you like:

git clone https://github.com/DevelopMan303/ring.git

Afterwards copy it to a bin directory:

mkdir -p ~/bin ; cd ring ; cp ring.sh ~/bin/ring

You may logout/login afterwards.

License

Do with this whatever you like.

Last words

It is a little surprising how much overhead for error handling, documentation and platfor support is required where the busyness logic could be as simple as this:

sleep 1m; echo -en "\007"