It’s UNIX, how hard can it be? I want to run some Macports uodate scripts regularly. To me the obvious programming language is bash, but I got excited and decided I want to notify that the script had run, and run OK.<\/p>\n
There are two schemes, Growl and OSX Notification system. These both have language bindings.<\/p>\n
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See also the wikipedia Growl page<\/a> and the Growl home page<\/a><\/p>\n So most roads lead to Applescript, and here is the Apple developer resource<\/a>, and here is the man osascript<\/a> page which allows applescript calls from the command line, and hence from within a script. I have bookmarked the applescript manual.<\/p>\n The shell call osascript takes a program file argument.<\/p>\n ooOOOoo<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s UNIX, how hard can it be? I want to run some Macports uodate scripts regularly. To me the obvious programming language is bash, but I got excited and decided I want to notify that the script had run, and run OK. There are two schemes, Growl and OSX Notification system. These both have language…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[150,3],"tags":[639,75,638,691,373,920,911],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macos-technology","category-technology","tag-growl","tag-macos","tag-notification","tag-osascript","tag-scripting","tag-software","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/handwriting-w650.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3798,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/3798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}