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• What would be really funny, SSH to your Mac, use osascript to turn the volume all the way up on your Mac (set volume 6) and then 'say' something to someone at home, like your wife or kids!!! Like I might say: 'Hello? This is the crazy and possesed Mac speaking to you. Do what I say or I will start saying knock knock jokes.'

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What would be really funny, SSH to your Mac, use osascript to turn the volume all the way up on your Mac (set volume 6) and then 'say' something to someone at home, like your wife or kids!!! Like I might say: 'Hello? This is the crazy and possesed Mac speaking to you. Do what I say or I will start saying knock knock jokes.'
I'm not sure if this would work through SSH, but I guess it would. BTW, whats the highest interger for setting the volume all the way up?

as long as you have an account with shell acess (remote login turned on too) then you can do this. It worked with the osascript tip and now with say. Very useful. Remind those students they should not be eating in the lab, or something.

LOL

I've been trying to build a little app based on say, but I'm just a web guy:
http://www.robotradio.net/

Yeah, I've done this to people. Yes, it's hilarious.

Kinda reminds me of a Classic extension called Radiation. Allowed you to create standard dialog boxes on any computer on the network. The default was great: 'The radiation shield on your Macintosh has failed. Please step back 5 feet.'

Very cool! I also like the fact that they put in a man page for it so we didn't have to fumble around for usage hints.
On a side note, I really appreciate all of the Panther 'hidden gems' that I find here.

This sounds like an exceptionally bad idea to me. A malicious user could just type in a quote, followed by &&, followed by any malicious command, and then another quote to match the one at the end. You REALLY don't want to give arbitrary users permission to execute shell commands on your system.

Since what ever the user types is in quotes, what could the user type that would do anything other than speak the text.
Example: I tried to enter: hello ' && open /Applications/Calculator.app
and nothing happened. Please, if I'm wrong and someone CAN do something malicious, please correct me.

A bit funnier...
<code>
<?
$selected=';
switch($_POST['QUI']){
case 'Agnes' : $selected[1] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Albert' : $selected[2] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Bad News' : $selected[3] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Bahh' : $selected[4] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Bells' : $selected[5] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Boing' : $selected[6] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Bruce' : $selected[7] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Bubbles' : $selected[8] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Cellos' : $selected[9] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Deranged' : $selected[10] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Fred' : $selected[11] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Hysterical' : $selected[12] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Junior' : $selected[13] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Kathy' : $selected[14] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Pipe Organ' : $selected[15] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Princess' : $selected[16] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Ralph' : $selected[17] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Trinoids' : $selected[18] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Vicky' : $selected[19] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Victoria' : $selected[20] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Whisper' : $selected[21] ='SELECTED';break;
case 'Zarvox' : $selected[22] ='SELECTED';break;
}
?>
<html><body>
<form method='post'>
<select name='QUI'>
<option <? echo $selected[1]?>>Agnes</option>
<option <? echo $selected[2]?>>Albert</option>
<option <? echo $selected[3]?>>Bad News</option>
<option <? echo $selected[4]?>>Bahh</option>
<option <? echo $selected[5]?>>Bells</option>
<option <? echo $selected[6]?>>Boing</option>
<option <? echo $selected[7]?>>Bruce</option>
<option <? echo $selected[8]?>>Bubbles</option>
<option <? echo $selected[9]?>>Cellos</option>
<option <? echo $selected[10]?>>Deranged</option>
<option <? echo $selected[11]?>>Fred</option>
<option <? echo $selected[12]?>>Hysterical</option>
<option <? echo $selected[13]?>>Junior</option>
<option <? echo $selected[14]?>>Kathy</option>
<option <? echo $selected[15]?>>Pipe Organ</option>
<option <? echo $selected[16]?>>Princess</option>
<option <? echo $selected[17]?>>Ralph</option>
<option <? echo $selected[18]?>>Trinoids</option>
<option <? echo $selected[19]?>>Vicki</option>
<option <? echo $selected[20]?>>Victoria</option>
<option <? echo $selected[21]?>>Whisper</option>
<option <? echo $selected[22]?>>Zarvox</option>
</select>
Say: <textarea name='text'><? echo $_POST['text']?></textarea>
<input type='submit'>
</form>
</body>
</html>
<?php
if (isset($_POST['text'])) {
exec('say -v '.$_POST['QUI'].' '.$_POST['text'].'');
}
?>
</code>
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Take care,
Drake

I added some security, and timestamped logging, in case you miss the performance. (Make sure the Unix permissions on the log directory are appropriate!) I am a php newbie ;) Now time for bed!
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In /dev/null, no one can hear you scream

Can you think of why I am only able to hear speech through my cmd line and Salling Clicker but not when I use your script via php?
I am positive my php5 setup is running and working as I utilize if wit my server mail script on my site.
Thanks,
~thecolor

it seems to be working now. Unsure why as I've not changed any of my settings. :)
Thanks

More fun:

say 94870342956230954792347592037452345

Gives you new insights what to do once you've made your first million dollars. :-)

Bye,
christian

At least in Leopard, use commas:

say 94,870,342,956,230,954,792,347,592,037,452,345

This command lives in Jaguar also. I've been using this command to freak out people on the Macs I can ssh into for over a year now.
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Where is it in Jaguar? I've searched my whole system and can't find it anywhere. Yes I do have the BSD subsystem installed and I'm running 10.2.6.

I only know of it existing in Jaguar with the 'osascript' command -- which executes AppleScript's 'say,' not the shell's say (try saying that five times quickly!)
-rob.

Nevermind, I forgot I had made my own 'say' command using osascript.
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anyone notice that if you do the command: say 'x', or say 'mac x' or say 'this is an example of saying x' that the voice will pronounce x as ecks, but if you type: say 'mac os x' or 'os x' then it will pronounce x as 'ten'? I know, this is how its supposed to be said, I was just tickled by this detail.

If you look at 'man say', you'll see the -o option to send spoken data to an aiff file and a -f option to read the contents of a text file.
In the directory /Users/myusername/Documents, I created a plan-text file called myfile.txt. Here's what happened:
say 'Hello' SUCCESS
say -v Vicki 'Hello' SUCCESS
but ALL of these failed with a return code of -1:
say -v Vicki -o mysound.aiff -f myfile.txt
say -f myfile.txt
say -v Vicki -f myfile.txt
say -v Vicki -o 'mysound.aiff' -f 'myfile.txt'
Does anyone see what I've done wrong or has anyone succeeded with the -o or -f options and what did it take to get there?
Any help will be appreciated.

Sounds play but I also get this error:
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
Any clue of what it is?

I'm curious if anyone is familure with a way to pipe this command through to the visiting clients speakers or preferably the beep speaker. Obviously the voice does not need a serious subwoofer... and the beep speaker is always active.
It works great on my end... but I'd like to pass 'say' sounds to users visiting as well. I've not located any such question on the forum yet (and a difficult one to tailor in Google. ;)
Thanks

Here's a fun one. :)
say Super cala fraj ee listick ex pee al a doashus

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You’ll see a small window with a white background open on your desktop. In the title bar are your username, the word 'bash' and the dimensions of the window in pixels. Bash stands for 'Bourne again shell'. There are a number of different shells that can run Unix commands, and on the Mac Bash is the one used by Terminal.

If you want to make the window bigger, click on the bottom right corner and drag it outwards. If you don’t like the black text on a white background, go to the Shell menu, choose New Window and select from the options in the list.

If Terminal feels complicated or you have issues with the set-up, let us tell you right away that there are alternatives. MacPilot allows to get access to over 1,200 macOS features without memorizing any commands. Basically, a third-party Terminal for Mac that acts like Finder.

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Basic Mac commands in Terminal

The quickest way to get to know Terminal and understand how it works is to start using it. But before we do that, it’s worth spending a little time getting to know how commands work. To run a command, you just type it at the cursor and hit Return to execute.

Every command is made up of three elements: the command itself, an argument which tells the command what resource it should operate on, and an option that modifies the output. So, for example, to move a file from one folder to another on your Mac, you’d use the move command 'mv' and then type the location of the file you want to move, including the file name and the location where you want to move it to.

Let’s try it.

1. Type cd ~/Documentsthen and press Return to navigate to your Home folder.

2. Type lsthen Return (you type Return after every command).

You should now see a list of all the files in your Documents folder — ls is the command for listing files.

To see a list of all the commands available in Terminal, hold down the Escape key and then press y when you see a question asking if you want to see all the possibilities. To see more commands, press Return.

Unix has its own built-in manual. So, to learn more about a command type man [name of command], where 'command' is the name of the command you want find out more about.

Terminal rules

There are a few things you need to bear in mind when you’re typing commands in Terminal, or any other command-line tool. Firstly, every character matters, including spaces. So when you’re copying a command you see here, make sure you include the spaces and that characters are in the correct case.

You can’t use a mouse or trackpad in Terminal, but you can navigate using the arrow keys. If you want to re-run a command, tap the up arrow key until you reach it, then press Return. To interrupt a command that’s already running, type Control-C.

Commands are always executed in the current location. So, if you don’t specify a location in the command, it will run wherever you last moved to or where the last command was run. Use the cdcommand, followed by a directory path, like in Step 1 above, to specify the folder where you want a command to run.

There is another way to specify a location: go to the Finder, navigate to the file or folder you want and drag it onto the Terminal window, with the cursor at the point where you would have typed the path.

Here’s another example. This time, we’ll create a new folder inside your Documents directory and call it 'TerminalTest.'

1. Open a Finder window and navigate to your Documents folder.

2. Type cd and drag the Documents folder onto the Terminal window.

3. Now, type mkdir 'TerminalTest'

Go back to the Finder, open Text Edit and create a new file called 'TerminalTestFile.rtf'. Now save it to the TerminalTest folder in your Documents folder.

In the Terminal window, type cd ~/Documents/TerminalTest then Return. Now type lsand you should see 'TerminalTestFile' listed.

To change the name of the file, type this, pressing Return after every step:

1. cd~/Documents/Terminal Test

2. mv TerminalTestFile TerminalTestFile2.rtf

That will change the name of the file to 'TerminalTestFile2'. You can, of course, use any name you like. The mv command means 'move' and you can also use it to move files from one directory to another. In that case, you’d keep the file names the same, but specify another directory before typing the the second instance of the name, like this:

mv ~/Documents/TerminalTest TerminalTestFile.rtf ~/Documents/TerminalTest2 TerminalTestFile.rtf

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Terminal can be used for all sorts of different tasks. Some of them can be performed in the Finder, but are quicker in Terminal. Others access deep-rooted parts of macOS that aren’t accessible from the Finder without specialist applications. Here are a few examples.

Copy files from one folder to another

1. In a Terminal window, type ditto [folder 1] [folder 1] where 'folder 1' is the folder that hosts the files and 'folder 2' is the folder you want to move them to.

2. To see the files being copied in the Terminal window, type -v after the command.

Download files from the internet

You’ll need the URL of the file you want to download in order to use Terminal for this.

1. cd ~/Downloads/

2. curl -O [URL of file you want to download]

If you want to download the file to a directory other than your Downloads folder, replace ~/Downloads/ with the path to that folder, or drag it onto the Terminal window after you type the cd command.

Change the default location for screenshots

If you don’t want macOS to save screenshots to your Desktop when you press Command-Shift-3, you can change the default location in Terminal

1. defaults write com.apple.screencapture location [path to folder where you want screenshots to be saved]

2. Hit Return

3. killall SystemUIServer

4. Hit Return

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Change the default file type for screenshots

By default, macOS saves screenshots as .png files. To change that to .jpg, do this:

1. defaults write com.apple.screencapture type JPG

2. Press Return

3. killall SystemUIServer

4. Press Return

Delete all files in a folder

The command used to delete, or remove, files in Terminal is rm. So, for example, if you wanted to remove a file in your Documents folder named 'oldfile.rtf' you’d use cd ~/Documents to go to your Documents folder then to delete the file. As it stands, that will delete the file without further intervention from you. If you want to confirm the file to be deleted, use -i as in rm -i oldfile.rtf

To delete all the files and sub-folders in a directory named 'oldfolder', the command is rm -R oldfolder and to confirm each file should be deleted, rm -iR oldfolder

Just because you can use Terminal to delete files on your Mac, doesn’t mean you should. It’s a relatively blunt instrument, deleting only those files and folders you specify.

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If your goal in removing files or folders is to free up space on your Mac, or to remove junk files that are causing your Mac to run slowly, it’s far better to use an app designed for the purpose. CleanMyMac X is one such app.

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As you can see, while Terminal may look scary and seem like it’s difficult to use, it really isn’t. The key is learning a few commands, such as those we’ve outlined above, and getting to know the syntax for those commands.

However, you should be careful when using Terminal, it’s a powerful tool that has deep access to your Mac’s system files. Check commands by googling them if you’re not sure what they do. And if you need to delete files to save space, use an app like CleanMyMac X to do it. It’s much safer!

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