Command-line Growl Notifications

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Nitesh Dhanjani
Jun. 28, 2005 11:42 PM
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Growl is a “global notification system” for OS X. Applications can use the Growl framework to display notifications to the user. I use Growl with Adium, and it works wonderfully.

The Growl package (download) includes a utility called growlnotify, which can be used to display notifications using the command-line. I use the following bash script (growlexec) to run a specified command and display a notification when done:



#!/bin/bash



$*



if [ $? -eq 0 ]

        then /usr/local/bin/growlnotify -m "\"$*\" done (SUCCESS)"

        

        else /usr/local/bin/growlnotify -m "\"$*\" done (FAILED)"

fi

Here is a screen-shot of growlexec causing a Growl notification to be displayed after a successful nmap run:

Nitesh Dhanjani is a well known security researcher, author, and speaker. Dhanjani has been invited to talk at various information security events such as the Black Hat Briefings, RSA, Hack in the Box, Microsoft Blue Hat, and OSCON.

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I don't get it
2005-06-29 08:56:37 wbk [Reply | View]

I've never had a need for anything like this. How often do you use it? Do you actually use it to notify you when nmap completes?!

I don't get it
2005-06-29 11:21:45 Nitesh Dhanjani | [Reply | View]

Yes, sometimes nmap takes a while to complete if it is a remote host and I'm scanning all possible ports.

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