Say - a cool terminal command

Sun, 26 November 2006

Another jaw-dropping feature of Mac OS X when showing off to your friends - open the Terminal (~/Applications/Utilities/Terminal ) and type say command, followed by any text.

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For example type: say I like silvermac and press return. Your computer promptly does what you asked it do do, it says I like silvermac.

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5 Responses to “Say - a cool terminal command”

  1. iTux said: Sun, 26 November 2006 at 22:46

    Some commands to show off:

    uname -a | say

    uptime | say

    Have fun! :D

  2. Brian said: Mon, 27 November 2006 at 03:24

    Nice! I’ve only had my macbook pro for a couple weeks. But each day I find out something I couldn’t do in windows very easily. Mac forever!

  3. Mailman said: Sat, 30 December 2006 at 12:20

    Basicly… ‘echo’ with minus one letter.

  4. jesus said: Mon, 2 April 2007 at 13:07

    @Mailman: I do not have a Mac, so I cannot test this, but I think by “say”, they mean the computer physically puts the text in to speech (as OS X does have builh in text-to-speech support), and “says” it, through speakers. I do have a PC running Windows, though, and all “echo” does, is repeat back what you tell it to - in text.

  5. andrewman said: Sat, 20 October 2007 at 08:18

    you can also do this in script editor.

    type:

    say “words”

    and press compile button at top then run, you can also tell it to beep,

    beep 3

    tells it to beep 3 times, you can change the beep in:

    system prefrences/sound/sound effects

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