SYNOPSIS
saydate [options]DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the saydate command.saydate is a Linux shell program that talks the current date through the computer's sound device. It is adapted from the shell version of saytime.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.- -dow
- Say weekday name (Sunday..Saturday).
- -month
- Say month name (January..December).
- -day
- Say day of month (the 1st..31st).
- -year
- Say year (1970...).
- -uptime
- Say the system uptime (uptime is 7 days 3 hours 47 minutes).
- -the_date_is
- Say the phrase the date is.
- -the
- Say the word the.
- -and
- Say the word and.
- --help
- Show summary of options.
- --version
- Show version of program.
FILES
- /usr/share/saydate/*
- sound files needed to say the date.
- /usr/bin/au2raw
- skript to convert files from au to raw for own recordings of saydate's voice.
BUGS
Only English files are supported. Probably a few more.Word-Wide-Web:
http://webhome.idirect.com/~tekatch/anthony/saydateAUTHOR
Anthony Tekatch <[email protected]>This manual page was written by Dr. Guenter Bechly <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It is distributed under the GPL just like saydate itself.