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Wed, 07 Jul 2004
linux tips
Adam Rosi Kessel has a good list of useful Linux tricks. I particularly liked the Firefox remote new tab one.
I've also used several variants of "Email yourself after a long task". One is to send the e-mail to a pager, the other is to use the Mac OS X "say" command to give a spoken notification.
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Most of my long tasks send me their output or a log or something along those lines in email. That gives me notification that they're done as well as a copy of what they did and when they did it. So instead of:
blah blah ; echo done | mail adam
I would pipe the output of the whole thing to "mail willg". You could toss the "done" in the subject flag, too:
blah blah | mail adam --subject="done blah blah"
As an aside, I use the Mac OS X "say" command in conjunction with the at scheduler to tell us when our brownies are ready to take out of the oven.
Posted by willg at Thu Jul 8 07:24:00 2004
blah blah ; echo done | mail adam
I would pipe the output of the whole thing to "mail willg". You could toss the "done" in the subject flag, too:
blah blah | mail adam --subject="done blah blah"
As an aside, I use the Mac OS X "say" command in conjunction with the at scheduler to tell us when our brownies are ready to take out of the oven.
Posted by willg at Thu Jul 8 07:24:00 2004
In what version of Mac OS X can I find the "say" command? I have 10.2.8 and have the terminal running a lot, so I'd find this useful. This utility sounds like a good thing (pun intended).
Thanks!
Posted by michael glowacki at Thu Jul 8 12:42:42 2004
Thanks!
Posted by michael glowacki at Thu Jul 8 12:42:42 2004
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