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macOS command-line tools you might not know about

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2039 points Gadiguibou | 3 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.754s | source
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renewiltord ◴[27 Jun 23 15:33 UTC] No.36494351[source]▶
I use:

``` #!/usr/bin/env bash

    set -u

    title=${2:-Shell}
    msg=$1

    osascript -e "display notification \"$1\" with title \"$title\""
```

As `~/bin/,notify` and put it at the end of long-running commands:

``` run_this_program && ,notify "Long program is done!" ```

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1. Svetlitski ◴[27 Jun 23 15:51 UTC] No.36494572[source]▶
I can’t help but ask, why “,notify” and not just “notify”?
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2. renewiltord ◴[27 Jun 23 15:56 UTC] No.36494636[source]▶
I name all my personal programs prefixed by the comma. I learnt it from someone on lobste.rs. No Unix utilities use the prefix in their name and it is a valid filename.

So I can type , and I am sure it's my program and I'm not running something else and it'll autocomplete among my list of programs.

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3. wpm ◴[27 Jun 23 16:19 UTC] No.36494961[source]▶
This is a very cool idea, I always hesitate to add a lot of aliases to my zshrc since I never want to step on any toes.