Command line health check with an audio output

script file

#!/bin/bash

response=$(
  curl https://selleo.com \
      --write-out 200 \
      --silent \
      --output /dev/null
)

if test "$response" -ge 200 && test "$response" -le 299 ; then
  say "yay, it works"
else
  say "oops"
fi

run the script with watch

watch -n 5 "./script"

Linux users can use spd-say

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