Scheduling Ubuntu to "Wake Up"

[Patton Echols]

Forgive me for being  dense, but I lurk a lot and try to learn . . .

On 10/25/2007 03:54 PM, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:52:11 -0400, Daniel George Pevny wrote:
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>> Thank for for the response, Kenneth.  Could you give me an example for
>> how the command is used? (ie. a playlist file everyday @ 5:45 am)
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> chmod /home/me/mymusic/somthing_i_like
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Ok, what does that have to do with it?

> at 5:45 AM
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>> play *.mp3
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> [Hit ctrl-d here]
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I understood that "at" runs a shell command at the appropriate time, so 
is "play *.mp3" shorthand for something else?  Like whatever command 
line player you  use?  Or is it something else entirely

Thanks for contributing to my education ;-)

Patton

> That's it.  Assuming your directory has mp3 files in it. 
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> This will just play it once at 5:45 AM tomorrow.  If you want this to
> happen every morning you can put it in the cron script, but I wouldn't. 
> Some day you are going to want to sleep in and then it will be a bit of a
> pain to turn off.
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