[CS-FSLUG] set awarning when finished?

[Josiah Ritchie]

Perhaps you'd be interested in the beep command. 'sudo apt-get install beep'
'man beep' and you'll find lots of options for integrating this into cli
stuff. You may also be able to plug into the desktop's notification system
using notify-send (
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-get-notifications-your-scripts-notify-send)
assuming your desktop linux of choice is Ubuntu or another that
uses NotifyOSD. I'm not sure that will allow it to beep though.

Hope that is helpful.

JSR/

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:10 PM, <davidm at hisfeet.net> wrote:

> Thamks, Mark.
>
> Although I mention ed Windows, I hardly use it anymore. I feel much more
> comfortable in Linux, so I'm really looking for something that I can use
> in Linux. I rather think that when I find it, it will be a command line
> tool, but that's just fine provided it's not too complicated.
> Dave
>
> > Have you looked at Growl for Windows? It's probably a sledgehammer where
> a
> > ball peen would do. One web site there is a list of applications that use
> > growl for visual and audiable notifications. And it comes with a comand
> > line tool, growlnotify, that can be called from batch/command files.
> >
> > Mark
> > --
> > claytoncapers.blogspot.com
> > www.mark-clayton.com
> >
> >
> > On Jun 17, 2011, at 14:52, davidm at hisfeet.net wrote:
> >
> >> Before Windows existed (in DOS) I used to be able to tell the computer
> >> to
> >> ring a bell several times when it got done with a job.
> >>
> >> I there some way to set windows so that when it finishes some lengthy
> >> job
> >> unsupervised it will give me an audible advisory that the job is
> >> finished?
> >>
> >> I'm thinking of (for instance) a long download, or converting several
> >> different formats of short movies and making an iso out of it for a DVD.
> >>
> >> These are jobs that take long enough.  I'd like to go get a cup of
> >> coffee,or take a bath, or eat, etc.  But it would be nice if the
> >> computer
> >> would inform me when it has done it's job.
> >>
> >> A few programs have it built in (eg. K3B) but many don't.
> >>
> >> any suggestions?
> >>
> >>
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