Noti: Monitor a Process and Trigger a Notification

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Monitor a process and trigger a notification.

Never sit and wait for some long-running process to finish. Noti can alert you when it's done. You can receive messages on your computer or phone.

Noti can send notifications on a number of services.

Service macOS Linux Windows

Banner	✔	✔	✔
Speech	✔	✔	✔
BearyChat	✔	✔	✔
Keybase	✔	✔	✔
Mattermost	✔	✔	✔
Pushbullet	✔	✔	✔
Pushover	✔	✔	✔
Pushsafer	✔	✔	✔
Simplepush	✔	✔	✔
Slack	✔	✔	✔
Telegram	✔	✔	✔
Zulip	✔	✔	✔
Twilio	✔	✔	✔
GChat	✔	✔	✔
Chanify	✔	✔	✔
Bark	✔	✔	✔
ntfy	✔	✔	✔

Check the screenshots directory to see what the notifications look like on different platforms.

Install the Go binary with these commands.

# macOS install with Brew brew install noti # macOS install with curl curl -L $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/variadico/noti/releases/latest | awk '/browser_download_url/ { print $2 }' | grep 'darwin-amd64' | sed 's/"//g') | tar -xz # Linux install with curl curl -L $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/variadico/noti/releases/latest | awk '/browser_download_url/ { print $2 }' | grep 'linux-amd64' | sed 's/"//g') | tar -xz

Or download it with your browser from the latest release page.

If you want to build from the source, then build like this.

# build binary make build

Just put noti at the beginning or end of your regular commands. For more details, check the docs.

Display a notification when tar finishes compressing files.

noti tar -cjf music.tar.bz2 Music/

Add noti after a command, in case you forgot at the beginning.

clang foo.c -Wall -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -o bizz; noti

If you already started a command but forgot to use noti, then you can do this to get notified when that process' PID disappears.

You can also press ctrl+z after you started a process. This will temporarily suspend the process, but you can resume it with noti.

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1M count=2000 ^Z zsh: suspended dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1M count=2000 $ fg; noti [1] + continued dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1M count=2000 2000+0 records in 2000+0 records out 2097152000 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 12 s, 175 MB/s

Additionally, noti can send a message piped from stdin with -.

$ make test 2>&1 | tail --lines 5 | noti -t "Test Results" -m -

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