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On 2015-08-29, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> In article <d4di6bFo86jU3@mid.individual.net>, Huge
><Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On 2015-08-29, Peter James <peter@pfjames.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I need an app that will run on OS X v 10.10.5 that will give me a daily
>>> warning at 6.30 p.m each and every day to take medication that has been
>>> prescribed for me.
>>> I have to take it at this time.
>>>
>>> Any recommendations from anyone?
>>
>>cron, bash and zenity
>
><concerned look> Did you drop something on your toe?

LOL.

><runs away - again>

[Looks in puzzlement at Tim's retreating back]

Oh, g'won then, I'm in a good mood.  All of this stuff runs in the Unix
environment that supports Mac OS and ignores the party frock in front.

- cron is a program that runs other programs at specific intervals

- bash is a "shell" - it accepts commands and runs them. It may well
be what you see when you open a Terminal on your Mac.

- zenity is a program that pops up a window under the command of a
shell script.


So, you can create a script that says;

zenity --info "Take your drugs!"

And run it from cron at 18:30 each day.





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