| Tip 71 | Notify from the Command Line |
There’s no official way of making a notification pop-up appear from the command line. This would be useful to send a message that a certain command has completed, for example. The good news is that you can use a Ruby gem called terminal-notifier to do so (gems are extensions to the Ruby programming language that’s included with OS X).
To install terminal-notifier, open a Terminal window in the usual way, and type the following:
| | sudo gem install terminal-notifier |
Type your password when prompted. Installation should take seconds.
Using terminal-notifier is easy. Just use the -message command option to specify the message, which should appear within quotation marks (or be escaped in the usual way), and use ...
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