The mac command say can specify the voice used with the -v flag.
say -v Alex "compile completed, put your swords down."
The available voices can be seen in System Preferences/Speech/Text to Speech. How can I get this list programmatically?
This is the list of available voices:
say -v '?'
for voice in `say -v '?' | awk '{print $1}'`; do say -v "$voice" "Hello, my name is $voice."; done
Python Version, courtesy of Barry Wark:
from AppKit import NSSpeechSynthesizer
print NSSpeechSynthesizer.availableVoices()
Shell Version, no hack too cheap!
(Don't actually use this, use the python version instead.)
ls /System/Library/Speech/Voices | sed 's/.SpeechVoice$//'
Agnes
Albert
Alex
BadNews
Bahh
Bells
Boing
...
[NSSpeechSynthesizer availableVoices]
It is worth going through several of the voices before deciding on one. There is a huge variation in quality.
For example, Tom sounds a bit impatient, but way more realistic than Alex. And some of the British voices are great.
Using say -v '?' gives you a list of the installed voices plus some sample sentences that give you an idea what to expect of the voice. You have to go through preferences to install most of the really good voices, but they come with a Compact voice file that lets you hear what each voice sounds like before you actually download them.
You can use the following to sample all the available voices:
say -v '?' | awk '{$2=$3=""; printf "-v %s", $1; $1=""; print " \"" $0 "\""}'| xargs -L1 say
for i in `say --voice=? | cut -f 1 -d' ' ` ; do
echo $i; say --voice=$i $i
done
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I am looking at this question: https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-phone-numbers/
which asked using a cmd to extract the phone numbers.
I found this command works:
cat file.txt | grep -Eo '^(\([0-9]{3}\) ){1}[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$|^([0-9]{3}-){2}[0-9]{4}$'
while this failed:
cat file.txt | grep -E '(^(\([0-9]{3}\))|^([0-9]{3}-))[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}'
I don't know why the second failed. Does it because grep doesn't support OR in a group?
No, it's because you dropped the space, so space in a phone number will no longer be allowed.
Also, the grouping in your regex seems to be off by a whack or two. What are you actually trying to express?
Finally, you have a useless use of cat -- grep can perfectly well read one or more input files without the help of cat.
Does anyone know of any possible way to determine or glean this information from the terminal (in order to use in a bash shell script)?
On my Macbook Air, via the GUI I can go to "About this mac" > "Displays" and it tells me:
Built-in Display, 13-inch (1440 x 900)
I can get the screen resolution from the system_profiler command, but not the "13-inch" bit.
I've also tried with ioreg without success. Calculating the screen size from the resolution is not accurate, as this can be changed by the user.
Has anyone managed to achieve this?
I think you could only get the display model-name which holds a reference to the size:
ioreg -lw0 | grep "IODisplayEDID" | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6 | grep '^LSN\|^LP'
will output something like:
LP154WT1-SJE1
which depends on the display manufacturer. But as you can see the first three numbers in this model name string imply the display-size: 154 == 15.4''
EDIT
Found a neat solution but it requires an internet connection:
curl -s http://support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?cc=`system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial/ {print $4}' | cut -c 9-` |
sed 's|.*<configCode>\(.*\)</configCode>.*|\1|'
hope that helps
The next script:
model=$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | \
/usr/bin/perl -MLWP::Simple -MXML::Simple -lane '$c=substr($F[3],8)if/Serial/}{
print XMLin(get(q{http://support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?cc=}.$c))->{configCode}')
echo "$model"
will print for example:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)
Or the same without perl but more command forking:
model=$(curl -s http://support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?cc=$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | sed -n '/Serial/s/.*: \(........\)\(.*\)$/\2/p')|sed 's:.*<configCode>\(.*\)</configCode>.*:\1:')
echo "$model"
It is fetched online from apple site by serial number, so you need internet connection.
I've found that there seem to be several different Apple URLs for checking this info. Some of them seem to work for some serial numbers, and others for other machines.
e.g:
https://selfsolve.apple.com/wcResults.do?sn=$Serial&Continue=Continue&num=0
https://selfsolve.apple.com/RegisterProduct.do?productRegister=Y&country=USA&id=$Serial
http://support-sp.apple.com/sp/product?cc=$serial (last 4 digits)
https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do
However, the first two URLs are the ones that seem to work for me. Maybe it's because the machines I'm looking up are in the UK and not the US, or maybe it's due to their age?
Anyway, due to not having much luck with curl on the command line (The Apple sites redirect, sometimes several times to alternative URLs, and the -L option doesn't seem to help), my solution was to bosh together a (rather messy) PHP script that uses PHP cURL to check the serials against both URLs, and then does some regex trickery to report the info I need.
Once on my web server, I can now curl it from the terminal command line and it's bringing back decent results 100% of the time.
I'm a PHP novice so I won't embarrass myself by posting the script up in it's current state, but if anyone's interested I'd be happy to tidy it up and share it on here (though admittedly it's a rather long winded solution to what should be a very simple query).
This info really should be simply made available in system_profiler. As it's available through System Information.app, I can't see a reason why not.
Hi there for my bash script , under GNU/Linux : I make the follow to save
# Resolution Fix
echo `xrandr --current | grep current | awk '{print $8}'` >> /tmp/width
echo `xrandr --current | grep current | awk '{print $10}'` >> /tmp/height
cat /tmp/height | sed -i 's/,//g' /tmp/height
WIDTH=$(cat /tmp/width)
HEIGHT=$(cat /tmp/height)
rm /tmp/width /tmp/height
echo "$WIDTH"'x'"$HEIGHT" >> /tmp/Resolution
Resolution=$(cat /tmp/Resolution)
rm /tmp/Resolution
# Resolution Fix
and the follow in the same script for restore after exit from some app / game
in some S.O
This its execute command directly
ResolutionRestore=$(xrandr -s $Resolution)
But if dont execute call the variable with this to execute the varible content
$($ResolutionRestore)
And the another way you can try its with the follow for example
RESOLUTION=$(xdpyinfo | grep -i dimensions: | sed 's/[^0-9]*pixels.*(.*).*//' | sed 's/[^0-9x]*//')
VRES=$(echo $RESOLUTION | sed 's/.*x//')
HRES=$(echo $RESOLUTION | sed 's/x.*//')
my question is actually rather easy, but I suck at bash scripting and google was no help either. So here is the problem:
I have an executable that writes me a few variables to stdout. Something like that:
MrFoo:~$ ./someExec
Variable1=5
Another_Weird_Variable=12
VARIABLENAME=42
What I want to do now is to read in a specific one of these variables (I already know its name), store the value and use it to give it as an argument to another executable.
So, a simple call like
./function2 5 // which comes from ./function2 Variable1 from above
I hope you understand the problem and can help me with it
With awk you can do something like this (this is for passing value of 1st variable)
./someExec | awk -F= 'NR==1{system("./function2 " $2)}'
or
awk -F= 'NR==1{system("./function2 " $2)}' <(./someExec)
Easiest way to go is probably to use a combination of shell and perl or ruby. I'll go with perl since it's what I cut my teeth on. :)
someExec.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo Variable1=5
echo Another_Weird_Variable=12
echo VARIABLENAME=42
my_shell_script.sh
#!/bin/bash
myVariable=`./someExec | perl -wlne 'print $1 if /Variable1=(.*)/'`
echo "Now call ./function2 $myVariable"
[EDIT]
Or awk, as Jaypal pointed out 58 seconds before I posted my answer. :) Basically, there are a lot of good solutions. Most importantly, though, make sure you handle both security and error cases properly. In both of the solutions so far, we're assuming that someExec will provide guaranteed well-formed and innocuous output. But, consider if someExec were compromised and instead provided output like:
./someExec
5 ; rm -rf / # Uh oh...
You can use awk like this:
./function2 $(./someExec | awk -F "=" '/Variable1/{print $2}')
which is equivalent to:
./function2 5
If you can make sure someExec's output is safe you can use eval.
eval $(./someExec)
./function2 $Variable1
You can use this very simple and straight forward way:
./exp1.sh | grep "Variable1" | awk -F "=" '{print $2}'
If you want to use only one variable from the file use the below
eval $(grep 'Variable1' ./someExec )
./function2 $Variable1
And, if you want to use all the variables of a file, use
eval $(./someExec)
./function2 $<FILE_VARIBALE_NAME>
My goal is to cut the output of a command down to an arbitrary number of characters (let's use 6). I would like to be able to append this command to the end of a pipeline, so it should be able to just use stdin.
echo "1234567890" | your command here
# desired output: 123456
I checked out awk, and I also noticed bash has a substr command, but both of the solutions I've come up with seem longer than they need to be and I can't shake the feeling I'm missing something easier.
I'll post the two solutions I've found as answers, I welcome any critique as well as new solutions!
Solution found, thank you to all who answered!
It was close between jcollado and Mithrandir - I will probably end up using both in the future. Mithrandir's answer was an actual substring and is easier to view the result, but jcollado's answer lets me pipe it to the clipboard with no EOL character in the way.
Do you want something like this:
echo "1234567890" | cut -b 1-6
What about using head -c/--bytes?
$ echo t9p8uat4ep | head -c 6
t9p8ua
I had come up with:
echo "1234567890" | ( read h; echo ${h:0:6} )
and
echo "1234567890" | awk '{print substr($0,1,6)}'
But both seemed like I was using a sledgehammer to hit a nail.
This might work for you:
printf "%.6s" 1234567890
123456
If your_command_here is cat:
% OUTPUT=t9p8uat4ep
% cat <<<${OUTPUT:0:6}
t9p8ua
I have very little experience with AWK, but it seems like the best tool for my purpose now.
I am trying to get a list of nearby BSSIDs by using the airport -s command in OS X. Output looks like this:
SSID BSSID RSSI CHANNEL HT CC SECURITY (auth/unicast/group)
MyWireless 00:11:22:33:44:55 -85 64 N US WPA(PSK/TKIP/TKIP) WPA2(PSK/TKIP/TKIP)
Your Wireless 66:77:88:99:00:11 -84 64 N US WPA(PSK/TKIP/TKIP) WPA2(PSK/AES/TKIP)
So clearly I'm looking for the second column. So I tried:
airport -s | awk '{print $2}'
And that works fine until I have an SSID with a space in its name. I've tried setting IFS to tab, FS to tab, nothing really seems to work.
I keep getting this:
00:11:22:33:44:55
Your
I am hoping eventually to get a simple list:
00:11:22:33:44:55
66:77:88:99:00:11
I know this is a one-line solution, so I'm really embarrassed that I even have to ask... Please be kind. :)
Seems like a regexp might be better suited. Maybe just a simple egrep -o
airport -s | egrep -o '([[:xdigit:]]{2}:){5}[[:xdigit:]]{2}'
I'd be curious to see how you are setting FS to tab, because that ought to work if airport is outputting a tab between columns.
You can also use a regular expression as a field separator (at least in gawk). This will handle the case when there is one or more tabs between fields:
airport -s | awk -F'\t+' '{print $2}'
easy, you just have to go through each field and check for the pattern
airport -s | awk 'NR>1{ for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i~/^[0-9][0-9]:/){print $i}}}'