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safit is a command line utility to send notifications. It can be used to notify when a long running command is finished for example. Because when your command is fully baked, its time to stick a fork in it.
safit is roughly short for (S)tick (a) (f)ork (i)n i(t).
Installation
I'd be nice if this could be distributed as a stand alone binary or something. But since it's not...
$ gem install safit
Then run like:
$ safit notify "does this work?"
If using rvm, this is a nice way to make the executable available globally (with rvm version 1.20.7):
$ rvm wrapper $ rvm wrapper ruby-1.9.3@whatever --no-prefix safit
Usage
There are two ways to use this.
notify
$ safit notify MESSAGE
This will send MESSAGE to growl.
$ long_running_job.sh; safit notify done
This will send "done" to growl when long_running_job.sh is done.
exec
$ safit exec sleep 5
this will send a notification when the /bin/sleep
command is
finished.
Config
Growl should work without any configuration if running on the mac with growl installed.
For sending growl notifications to a mac from a remote host, some
configuration is required. This can be done with a ~/.safitrc
file which is
in yaml format. Here's an example
# in ~/.safitrc
gntp:
host: 'your_host_name'
passwd: 'your_growl_password'
TODO
- Look into using os x notification center directly