Hide

What's this?

commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again.

Delete that bloated snippets file you've been using and share your personal repository with the world. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.

If you have a new feature suggestion or find a bug, please get in touch via http://commandlinefu.uservoice.com/

Get involved!

You can sign-in using OpenID credentials, or register a traditional username and password.

OpenID
or
Sign in Register

First-time OpenID users will be automatically assigned a username which can be changed after signing in.

Hide

Stay in the loop…

Follow the Tweets.

Every new command is wrapped in a tweet and posted to Twitter. Following the stream is a great way of staying abreast of the latest commands. For the more discerning, there are Twitter accounts for commands that get a minimum of 3 and 10 votes - that way only the great commands get tweeted.

» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu3
» http://twitter.com/commandlinefu10

Subscribe to the feeds.

Use your favourite RSS aggregator to stay in touch with the latest commands. There are feeds mirroring the 3 Twitter streams as well as for virtually every other subset (users, tags, functions,…):

Subscribe to the feed for:

Hide

News

2012-05-20 - test
test
2012-05-20 - test
test
2012-05-20 - test
test
2012-05-20 - Test tweets
YU not working?
Hide

Tags

Hide

Functions

Hide

Credits

Site by David Winterbottom (user root).

Run a long job and notify me when it's finished

Terminal - Run a long job and notify me when it's finished
./my-really-long-job.sh && notify-send "Job finished"
2009-05-07 15:50:27
User: root
19
Up
Down
Run a long job and notify me when it's finished

You will need libnotify-bin for this to work:

sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin
Add to favourites | Report as malicious

Alternatives

There are 9 alternatives - vote for the best!

Terminal - Alternatives

Know a better way?

If you can do better, submit your command here.

What others think

thats a pretty nice command. thanks!

Comment by agony 150 weeks and 4 days ago

I would add that notify-send only executes if first commands exits with success code. Alternatively, you could account for the job failed case by adding || notify-send "Job Failed"

Comment by nottings 130 weeks and 2 days ago

or use really-long-job.sh; notify-send "command exited" for any exit status (noted from another command seen here)

Comment by MeanderingCode 15 weeks ago

Your point of view

You must be signed in to comment.

Related sites and podcasts