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whoop! I got it to work!
can i change the sound so i have a different one for the 10 second to the 50 second? the sound wasnt very loud and I kept missing it and not knowing which one it was on! also any way of turning up the sound other than the volume button of course!

Is there a way that I can save this script and call on it using a command? where should I store it and in what format? At the moment I've just got it saved as a text file and I copy and paste it we very morning!! there must be a n easier way!!!!
thanks

I played a little with the script and i'm no dev so there might be an other way to do this

I added a SOUND line after the first called SOUND1:

SOUNDFILE="/usr/share/sounds/game-chess_illegal_move.wav" ; SOUNDFILE1="/usr/share/sounds/ui-general_warning.wav" ; while true ; do aplay $SOUNDFILE; sleep 50; aplay $SOUNDFILE1; sleep 10 ; done

I suppose you could just change directory all together and play sounds from which ever directory you want to or just add the sounds in /usr/share/sounds for the ease of it.

Maybe just call them start.wav/mp3 and pause.wav/mp3 (less rewriting) ...

if you want to save that shell script to a file for easy running, type this from a terminal:
then press enter, then type as the first line, then paste the above script in entirity, then press enter for a new line and press CTRL+D to end the file.

Now make it executable:
and now whenever you want to run it, type:
that line starts with a dot and assumes you did all of the above in your home directory, which is the default working directory when you open a terminal.

I have a 20 minute workout that includes interval training of varying times. I've typed the commands up in a text file, but when I try and paste the code into xterm it only pastes half of it. Is there a limit to the length of the command line? Can i chunk it into parts? Would it work better if I stored the command? would this mean I can use a longer command?

also how do I do a > in terminal?
thanks