FRfrereubu·Sep 16, 2024
I use this, which I use for exactly those kinds of scripts, but I don't really like noises: https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier
In Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?julienXX
terminal-notifier
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julienXX / terminal-notifier
terminal-notifier
Send User Notifications on macOS from the command-line.
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Send User Notifications on macOS from the command-line.
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
14 sourcesThe app terminal-notifier[0] is pretty handy for bash scripts and cron jobs...
[0] https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier
In Show HN: I have found the world's greatest landing pageterminal-notifier does this.
https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier
In Growl in RetirementDepends on terminal-notifier[1] for notifications on OS X.
Not sure about "notify-send" for Linux.
[1]: https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier
In Show HN: Pomodoro in Your TerminalTerminal-notifier: Send User Notifications on Mac OS X from the Command-line
2 points · Open discussionI tried to use it with terminal-notifier[1], but couldn't get it to work :( Would've been awesome though. (Notifications after build completes, etc.)
[1]: https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier
In ITerm2 2.0I couldn't get the Triggers to work with terminal-notifier[1]. Bug? Or something to do with terminal-notifier?
[1]: https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier
In ITerm2 2.0Install this:
https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier
Add this to your .bashrc:
function notify {
terminal-notifier -title "$1" -message "$2"
}
In OS X Command Line UtilitiesI recently switched from 1Password to pass (on a mac). At first I missed how easy it was to hit "cmd+\" to fill in a web login form, but I made a little shortcut that has similar functionality.
First, I created an automator action that grabs the current URL from Chrome and strips out the hostname. This gets passed to a new Terminal window that runs a shell script that calls "pass -c" for the hostname.[0] Then the script calls terminal-notifier [1] and a notification pops up that reminds me of the username and any other info for that site (but not the password). [2]
Then I bind that service to the "cmd+\" keyboard shortcut and I have something that ends up being more reliable than 1password's often flaky form filling functionality. It includes the extra work of entering username manually and pasting in a password, but so far I like thi
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s system a lot better. Also, for sites that use the same login from multiple hostnames, I just create symlinks to a "canonical" pass entry.
Hope this is useful to some people on a mac!
[0] I couldn't figure out how to have pass ask for a gpg pinentry window when it was getting run from a non-interactive shell. So I use automator to create a new terminal window, then destroy it at the end.
[1] https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier
[2] all of my pass entries are of the form:
password
---
username: user
other info: foo
other info 2: bar
Interesting, just this morning I wrote a python script using https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pync to do something similar, except by sending OS X notifications to myself. I made some resolutions recently and I needed to remind myself of them regularly so I'd stick to them. So my 'app' chooses one from a list (randomly) and every 1-3 hours (randomly) sends a notification.
In Show HN: Inspiration to your desktop background – Powered by RubyMotionThere is an automatic way of doing this is OSX[1]. You may also want to use terminal-notifier instead of growl[2]. My experience was that the bash prompt became too slow. However, results seem to vary.
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[1] http://tech.superhappykittymeow.com/?p=332
[2] https://github.com/alloy/terminal-notifier
In Using iTerm2 with Growl for NotificationsTerminal-notifier - send OSX 10.8 notifications from the CLI
3 points · Open discussionSend Mac OS X User Notifications from the CLI
1 points · Open discussion