Monday 2 February 2015

Ubuntu Notification on process completion

A lot of times it happens that we run a time consuming process and we have to check again and again whether the process has completed. So here is a way around to create a notification when the process completes.

APLAY

The aplay command in ubuntu lets you play a wav file. The full execution command is

     aplay /home/user/test.wav (aplay path_to_music_file)

We will be creating a short alias for this as

     alias notify="aplay /home/user/test.wav"

Now whenever we run a time consuming process simply add notify command to its end. Eg:

    sudo apt-get update; notify

This will run the audio file once the update is complete and you will be notified of completion :)


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