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Comment by renewiltord

3 years ago

I use:

``` #!/usr/bin/env bash

    set -u

    title=${2:-Shell}
    msg=$1

    osascript -e "display notification \"$1\" with title \"$title\""

```

As `~/bin/,notify` and put it at the end of long-running commands:

``` run_this_program && ,notify "Long program is done!" ```

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Svetlitski  3 years ago

I can’t help but ask, why “,notify” and not just “notify”?

  • renewiltord  3 years ago

    I name all my personal programs prefixed by the comma. I learnt it from someone on lobste.rs. No Unix utilities use the prefix in their name and it is a valid filename.

    So I can type , and I am sure it's my program and I'm not running something else and it'll autocomplete among my list of programs.

    • wpm  3 years ago

      This is a very cool idea, I always hesitate to add a lot of aliases to my zshrc since I never want to step on any toes.