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My lightweight solution is to append `&& tput bel` to long-running commands, to ring the terminal bell upon completion :) Requires sound of course, but it's rea
by dandelany 10y ago
My lightweight solution is to append `&& tput bel` to long-running commands, to ring the terminal bell upon completion :) Requires sound of course, but it's reasonably easy to remember and quick to type. eg. try `sleep 5 && tput bel`
I've also used a similar cheap hack to listen to web traffic... Just write a bell character to your server log when something interesting happens, then `tail -f` the log file for live data sonification!
- hyperjeff 10y agoalso fun is to append `osascript -e 'say "all done!"'` or somesuch if you're within decent earshot. you can even pipe in context-specific info.