Yeah I tried that and it opeend a blank document with a n odd title in text edit. lol! On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
> Sarah, > > Did you get it to work? Note there are two special characters in the > command, these are important to get right... > > 1. There is a "pipe" or "OR bar" as some might call it, (In US > keyboards it is a shifted back slash). This was between say and open. > This command is used in terminal to say send all the output from the > left side into the right side. (I hope that simplification makes > sense. > > 2. A minus sign in front of the f. the minus sign makes the f an > option instead of a file name argument. > > HTH > Best wishes, > > Jon > > > On 24/09/2010, Sarah Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I think I got it but not sure. it opened something but my text edit window >> was blank. I'll look again when I get home. >> >> S >> On Sep 24, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: >> >>> It is more likely that I didn't write the command correcI will test my >>> command with a cut and paste from home to ensure Iformatted it >>> correctly. It should'nt take more then 3 seconds. >>> >>> Jon >>> instantaenious. >>> >>> On 23/09/2010, Sarah Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Hmm how long does this process of manual creation last? I waited about 1 >>>> to >>>> 2 minutes and text edit did not open with the manual for the say command. >>>> >>>> Take care. Maybe I'm not patient enough. >>>> >>>> S >>>> On Sep 23, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: >>>> >>>>> I was playing around with making fun of "droid" adds. So I created a >>>>> sound >>>>> file... >>>>> >>>>> say -o droiddead.aiff -v cello "droid. is. dead. Long live I Phone" >>>>> >>>>> I thought hmm, I should be able to open this from the termial and not >>>>> have to switch to the finder. >>>>> >>>>> In the process, I discoverd that there is a -f option to open that we >>>>> will >>>>> find useful. >>>>> >>>>> An example but not too usefull. >>>>> >>>>> man say | open -f >>>>> >>>>> This command will create a manual for the "say" command and then open >>>>> that >>>>> manual in textedit (or perhaps your preferred text editor ). >>>>> >>>>> Have fun with this, >>>>> >>>>> Jon >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
