Comments on: Use Growl Notifications to Alert When Command Line Tasks Have Completed

By: duarb

duarb — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:09:38 +0000

make is just a sample command, it’s for building source code.

Use any command followed by && growlnotify -m “Message”

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:08:19 +0000

@Paul

normal ! cause you need to have “XCode” installed on your Mac…for launching the “Make command”….the article missed this information !

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:13:32 +0000

When I try and run these commands after installing growl and growlnotify all I get is make: command not found

By: xofer

xofer — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:11:01 +0000

Just to inform you, this may not give the desired effect every time.
In the example && is logical AND, which means that if make install exits with a nonzero status, growlnotify will not be triggered.
This guarantees that grownlnotify will triggered after make exits no matter what the exit status:
make install; growlnotify -m “Install Completed”

Or – a bit more advanced:
make install && growlnotify -m “Install Completed” || growlnotify -m “Install ERROR!!!!!!!!!11111″