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MacOS – Trigger Notification Center when long-running commands finishes
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As a developer, I often run commands that take a while to finish:
git pull
composer install
npm install
Considering that I am not a very patient person, I get really bored waiting for these commands to finish, so during that time I usually switch to some other occupation such as:
- Checking Twitter/Tech/Hacking websites,
- Making & (sometimes) drinking coffee,
- Playing T-Rex Runner - The hidden endless running game of Chrome.
15 minutes later, I finally come back to my terminal with a cold coffee and I discover that I forgot to
cd
in the correct folder. Repeat for another 15 minutes.Isn't there a better way?
Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.Adam Hochschild
American author, journalist, and lecturer
Solution N°0 - The Junior Professor
Waiting by watching some Gifs right on the terminal with Gifi. One of my favourite solutions but not enough "cool" for some people.
Solution N°1 - The Middle-Earth Paradigm
Making all tools faster and developers more patient. That would work in a parallel universe where magic exists, maybe.
Solution N°2 - The Luminous Fish Effect
Use a short script that uses
terminal-notifier
& append it to each command such asgit pull repo@github.com | notify-me
That's pretty cool and do the job but ... I'm lazy and I don't want to append anything to my commands or predict if my command is a long-running command or not before even running it.
Solution N°3 - The Friendship Algorithm
What about trying another approach ? Instead of trying to detect long-running commands, we could simply send a notification when the CLI is not in the foreground. Mmmh, sounds good but is that possible ? With iTerm & OSX 10.9+, you can do this !!
1) Create a new command named
notify
:touch /usr/local/bin/notify && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/notify
vim /usr/local/bin/notify
2) Copy and paste this system script inside:
...waiting for Gist...
3) Add a custom function named
f_notifyme
and expose it to iTerm using PS1
vim ~/.zshrc
4) Copy and paste the function
...waiting for Gist...
5) We did it ! Finally, reload the source file of your terminal
source ~/.zshrc
and enjoy !
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Mise à jour le: 30 April 2021