Comments on: Announce When a Command Line Task is Completed in Mac OS X

By: Send an Alert to Notification Center from the Command Line in OS X

Send an Alert to Notification Center from the Command Line in OS X — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:13:51 +0000

[...] This has a myriad of potentially valid uses, but one fantastic use-case is along the same veins of verbally announcing when a command has completed or sending a badge alert, but instead posting the notification to OS X Mountain Lion’s [...]

By: Send a Notification Badge to the Terminal Dock Icon When a Task is Finished

Send a Notification Badge to the Terminal Dock Icon When a Task is Finished — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:04:47 +0000

[...] long ago we showed you how to announce when a command line task was finished by using the ‘say’ command, but because it speaks aloud it may be inappropriate to use [...]

By: xofer

xofer — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:16:54 +0000

And, by the way “&&” is wrong in the article itself – this is logical AND, which means the the latter part is executed *only* if the first part exited with a zero exit status.

It would make much more sense to do:
python backup.py; say “jobs done”

Then the second command is executed no matter what the exit code of the first.

By: xofer

xofer — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:13:01 +0000

You don’t need a function for that.

You can do:

sometask.sh && say -v Alex “Task Ok” || say -v Alex “Task Error”

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:04:59 +0000

Agreed, growl is a superior solution for anyone in an office, and you can use -H to specify alternate hosts to receive the notification.

By: Make Mac OS X Speak (or Sing) the Output of Any Command Line Task

Make Mac OS X Speak (or Sing) the Output of Any Command Line Task — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:26:48 +0000

[...] the lines of vocally announcing task completion within the command line, you can also have Mac OS X speak the output of any executed [...]

By: The Zerafiall

The Zerafiall — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:17:48 +0000

Haha… I read the tweet and clicked the link and was thinking “Oh… maybe it’s some fancy way of invoking growl or a UIAlertVeiw. Wait… wouldn’t be easier to just add && say -v Task Done to the end of you code” only to come over here and see that’s exactly what you did XD

By: rev_1318

rev_1318 — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:02:41 +0000

the only drawback for using ‘&&’ is that you won’t get a notification if the command fails!
Why not simply use ‘;’ as command separator?

compare:

cd IDontExist && say -v Alex Oops

with:

cd IDontExist; say -v Alex Oops

By: vdiv

vdiv — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:10:00 +0000

Excellent! Alex even gets the intonation right. Put a question mark at the end and hear for yourself.

By: Have Mac Terminal Audibly Announce The Completion Of A Command [Tip]

Have Mac Terminal Audibly Announce The Completion Of A Command [Tip] — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:39:54 +0000

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By: Foobar

Foobar — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:30:53 +0000

Nope, not for the finder. For the terminal, it’d be
$cp foo bar && say “file transfer complete”

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:58:12 +0000

so…is it possible to make a notification when file transfer from finder is done? How to do it?

By: Greg P

Greg P — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:45:41 +0000

You can also pipe to say

I tried it with uptime as follows

uptime | say

The Mac told me the time, uptime, load average etc

Very cool little function

Enjoy!

By: Theo Vosse

Theo Vosse — Wed, 09 May 2012 06:42:57 +0000

You could also try “growlnotify”, e.g. like this
$ growlnotify -s -m “Task Done”

By: Tarcisio

Tarcisio — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:07:08 +0000

My function to say the task status

function sayTaskStatusUsingExitCode() {
if [ "$?" == "0" ]
then
say -v Alex “Task Ok”
else
say -v Alex “Task Error”
fi
}