Notification of large background jobs

Published at Fri 17, 2007 22:57 | Permalink Permalink | Comments Comments (2) | Trackbacks Trackbacks (0)

Following this post where Pedro talks about how he receives notifications about background jobs I decided to clone his script to a Linux version using libnotify daemon.

#!/bin/bash

"$@" 
status=$?
notify-send  "Background script notification" "Completed $*" 
exit $status

Now if you simple alias n="your_script" you can do pretty things like Melo

n scp user@machine:pr0n /tmp

And get notified when the transfer ends :) Pretty handy! Thank you Melo for this tip!

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  1. avatar VuDu

    Nice! Look mom, I’ve learned some bashing today! xD Useful when we need to unrar all that porn that comes on partXX files :D Next step, nautilus scripting it :P

  2. avatar Pedro Melo

    Rúben,

    a versão mais recente que está nesse post já suporta libnotify.

    inté

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