Say I want to run some command that takes several minutes, so I want to do something else while it runs but receive notification when it is done. I also hate the terminal bell sound, so I turned it off. I can use this as follows:

In bash or zsh, I can define a function like this:

tnot () { “$@” && terminal-notifier -message “$( echo $@ ) returned $?” -title “Command $HISTCMD Completed” >/dev/null ; }

Now, I can issue

tnot sleep 12

It runs the sleep command (waits 12 seconds), and when it has finished, it posts the notification.

Now I need to figure out how to bind it to something like option-return, so I can invoke it without typing anything.

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