Salah-CLI

Description

A group of commands that add the prayer times to the cron scheduler (daily), and it should alarm you at the prayer times.

It's a CLI program it does not use the GUI, I think it should be light and won't use much resources from the computer, and the best part is that it will run at the background.

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Building

You should also install xidel, parallel and anacron.

And you should edit the file /etc/anacrontab and add something like this line

1       3       salah.update    /home/ahmed/.salah/update

so that the scheduler will be updated daily.

after that you make a directory for the salah files and cd to it.

mkdir ~/.salah
cd ~/.salah

Add the commands that will run at each prayer to the files something like the following note also that you have to make them executable I have vlc installed and I have a file named S.m4a in ~/.salah directory

echo -e '#!/bin/bash\ncvlc ~/.salah/S.m4a' | tee Fajr Dhuhr Asr Maghrib > Ishaa
chmod +x Fajr Dhuhr Asr Maghrib Ishaa

Now you have to make the update file

Make the file ~/.salah/update which will have something like this:

#!/bin/bash

if ! cmp -s p d/$(date +%-j)
then
    cat <(grep -xvf p <(crontab -l)) <(cat d/$(date +%-j) | tee p) > my-crontab
fi

and make it executable:

chmod +x update

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Thanks to

• Thanks to the authors of xidel, parallel and anacrontab. this program was made fairly easily with these commands.

Author

• written by Ahmed Elsawy