Habit-training with reminder

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 17:25 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 March 2006 13:25, Craig White wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 12:08 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I want to schedule a reminder to myself, until I develop the habit of
> > > performing certain actions.  The simplest way, I think would be a script
> > > to open a terminal window then echo the reminder.  How can I tell the
> > > script to open the terminal?
> >
> > ----
> > is this a trick question?
> >
> > kconsole       # kde console app
> > gnome-terminal # gnome terminal
> > xterm          # another terminal
> >
> Not a trick question.  In a terminal
> 
> konsole echo "reminder text"
> 
> opens a console, but doesn't continue to the echo part.  Presumably the two 
> commands have to be tied together in some way.
> 
> I'll give kalarm a try, as Carroll suggested.  All the same, I'd like to know 
> how I could have done it.
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$ cat test.txt
echo "Hi there"

$ konsole --noclose -e /bin/sh test.txt &

takes only a few seconds of experimentation

Craig