Cool and funny Mac Terminal commands

[neio]

To get the Mac to say a few words try this one:

sudo osascript -e 'say "Dum dum dum dum dum dum dum he he he ho ho ho fa lah lah lah lah lah lah fa lah full hoo hoo hoo" using "Cellos"'

To watch Watch Star Wars: Episode IV in Ascii text:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl


Check your battery via command line:

ioreg -l | grep -i IOBatteryInfo

 

[LandyMan]

HAHAHAHA, that first one is very cool!

 

[BobJones]

Cool... but you don't need the command line to do text to speech....

Just select the text and go Safari\Services\Speech\Start Speaking Text.

You can select the voice in the Speech settings under System Preferences.

What is really cool is to train your mac to recognise voice commands...
But don't blame me if everyone your office thinks ur nuts, or worse a *trekkie* for staring a your screen saying "Computer, New finder window"....

/Thinks to self... gotta change the speech command keyword to "Beiiaatchhh"!

 

[neio]

So does the computer recognise Souf Efrican ekcents?

 

[BobJones]

Its like all speech recognition software... you have to train it.
If yoose juf spake kleerly thev is no prublem!