more fun with notify-send

I like notify-send. Here is one more simple script that uses notify-send. (notify-send is the command line utility that shows pop-up message in the right hand bottom corner of desktop).

# cat runmon

!/bin/bash

COMMAND="$*"

eval "$COMMAND"

if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
   notify-send -t 0 -u normal "$COMMAND Done!"
else
   notify-send -t 0 -u critical "$COMMAND Failed!"
fi

Use it like this:

# runmon make all

# runmon cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=2,0 cdimage.raw

# runmon wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/.../Fedora-9-x86_64-DVD.iso

It is useful for monitoring the tasks that take long time. Like build of entire product or burning of a CD. When I leave something to build and get to other work, I would like to be notified when it's done - even if it is running in some background screen session.