{"items": [{"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/660298110172?comment_id=660299771842", "anchor": "fb-660299771842", "service": "fb", "text": "Set a timer for 10 seconds with an audio bell for a Mac: <br>sleep 10 &amp;&amp; echo -e \"\\a\"<br><br>The \\a is the \"bell\" character for a Mac.", "timestamp": "1400590374"}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/660298110172?comment_id=660305809742", "anchor": "fb-660305809742", "service": "fb", "text": "If you don't like email, you can try curl or ifttt.com to do the task when done.<br><br>This idiom is handy here:<br><br>foo.sh &amp;&amp; echo true || echo false<br><br>but not<br><br>foo.sh || echo false &amp;&amp; echo true", "timestamp": "1400594877"}, {"author": "Patricia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/660298110172?comment_id=660367750612", "anchor": "fb-660367750612", "service": "fb", "text": "Heh, I used to use the \"echo ^G\" trick all the time when running something in another window, but it seems that my current system is a modern system that doesn't do anything in response to the bell character.  I'm sure I have something around... um <br><br>pjh@pjh-laptop:/$ mpg321 /home/pjh/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/icegcmhgphfkgglbljbkdegiaaihifce/3.1.3.3_0/sounds/alarm.mp3<br><br>whoa!  that's pretty effective!  Now an alias...", "timestamp": "1400620094"}]}