Command line sound recorder for Mac OS X

[José Pedro Sousa do Amaral]

Hi,
I am looking for a program that could be activated as a cron job to  
record sounds at given intervals. I am trying to plan a recording  
station out of an Apple TV. The sole function of the device would be  
to record a few minutes of sound with certain periodicities.

Today, I dabbled a bit with sox. I compiled liboss, audiofile,  
esound, and sox but could not get sox to record.

Do you have any suggestions? I confess that I would prefer not to use  
AppleScript.

Thank you for your help.

Cordially,
ZP
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José Pedro Sousa do Amaral

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