CLI Tricks: Finding interesting words
Most Linux, BSD, MacOS machines
come with
/usr/share/dict/words
so a little
awk
,
grep
,
and other shell utilities
can find some interesting words.
Most Linux, BSD, MacOS machines
come with
/usr/share/dict/words
so a little
awk
,
grep
,
and other shell utilities
can find some interesting words.
Our daughter wanted to
"freeze dance"
(music plays,
stopping at random intervals,
at which the dancing kids freeze in place
until the music resumes).
So what is a geek dad to do?
Load up a playlist of kids' music in
cmus
,
start playing the music,
and let the shell randomly freeze and resume the music
while true ; do sleep $(( $RANDOM % 15 + 5)) ; cmus-remote -u ; sleep 4; cmus-remote -u ; done
This does as
sleep
for some random interval between
5
and
20
seconds, then does as
sleep
for
4
seconds before unpausing the music.
You could do something similar with
mpd
/mpc
if you prefer them.