No Stinking Phone App Needed ( Free BASH Script )

I meditate in my living room with my Linux computer running.

There is a dearth of kitschy little counter apps for Linux desktops as there are for Windows.

So I made myself a Bash script to play a gong audio file. Been using it for years. Recently I accidentally deleted it when moving to a new hard drive. I had to recreate it.

I thought I would do two nice with the same action by posting the script here. Others can use it and should I lose it again I can find a copy of it on the web :).

You can download the audio file by clicking this link

Just paste the script quoted below into a file on your *nix computer and read the top for instructions on how to set it up.

Enjoy!

################################################################################ ## ## File: meditationTimer ## ## Purpose: Count down and display the number of minutes left. Play an audio ## file when done. ## ## Usage: Type the name of the script followed by the minutes desired ## Example: count down two hours ## ## meditationTimer 120 ## ## Setup: 1. Install the package called "sox" on your Linux system ## 2. Place the meditationTimerBell.wav file in the same directory as ## this script. ## 3. Set the permission on both files with chmod 755 theFileName ## ################################################################################ #!/bin/bash # Get the current directory so that the audio file placed in the same # directory can be found directory=`dirname "$0"` # If minutes in whole numbers only is not supplied on the command line. if [[ -n ${1//[0-9]/} ]]; then echo "Please supply a value for minutes,only minutes,and only whole numbers." exit fi # Convert the input argument of minutes into seconds to count down. sec_rem=`expr 60 \* $1` # Calculate and print the time left while [ $sec_rem -gt 0 ]; do clear let sec_rem=$sec_rem-1 interval=$sec_rem seconds=`expr $interval % 60` interval=`expr $interval - $seconds` minutes=`expr $interval % 3600 / 60` interval=`expr $interval - $minutes` hours=`expr $interval % 86400 / 3600` printf "\nMeditation Timer:\n\n" printf "%02d:%02d:%02d" $hours $minutes $seconds sleep 1 done # Play the audio file for the bell play $directory/meditationTimerBell.wav printf "\n\n" ################################################################################ ## END OF FILE: meditationTimer ################################################################################ 

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