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./data_mining_job && growlnotify -m "Success!" || growlnotify -m "Failure :-(" (season with while, read and grep to taste)

• Lewisham 15y ago
  Hah, if only it was so simple! The integrity of the job is the problem. It's been coded to failover problems (as the original data integrity its mining from isn't good), so it will happily do something stupid for hours. That's why I have to watch it, and make sure its not doing something stupid. Unit tests would ensure stupidity was not a possibility, and regressions could be tracked. Too late for that, unfortunately. So I watch.
  • rcfox 15y ago
    Couldn't you write unit tests while you wait?
    • Lewisham 15y ago
      Fair point :)
• paulbaumgart 15y ago
  Whoops. Too late to edit, but a correction: growlnotify -m "Success! " (the space tells bash to treat the exclamation point as text)
  • rcfox 15y ago
    Or just use \!
    • deleted 15y ago
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    • paulbaumgart 15y ago
      Good call. Though for multi-word messages, you'd have to do something like: growlnotify -m "$(echo Great\! Success\!)"
      • qntm 15y ago
        For arbitrary messages: sub escape { my $arg = shift; $arg =~ s/([^a-zA-Z0-9_])/\\$1/g; return $arg; }