woof

Make long running tasks more fun (mac only).

Have you ever kicked off a long running task and wanted to work on something else or play ping pong until it finished? If so then woof is for you.

Woof is a collection of command line tools to send yourself notifications when long running tasks complete. If you plan to stay close by, music <long running task> will play the Jeapordy theme song (provided separately) until that comand finishes. If you plan to venture further away, <long running task> && text success || text failure will send you a text message when that task completes.

Getting Started

1. Install terminal-notifier.
2. Install and configure twurl.
3. Download background music to ~/waiting.mp3.
4. Add configuration parameters to the top of woof.bash and add source path/to/woof.bash to your bash profile.

Usage

Play music from ~/waiting.mp3 in the background:

music git status

Pop up a growl notification:

notify Your job just finished.

Send yourself a text message:

text Your job just finished.

Tweet

tweet My job just finished.

Send yourself a direct message on Twitter:

dm_me Your job just finished.

Send yourself an email:

email Your job just finished.

Text-to-speech (this is actually built-in for macs, but worth noting anyway):

say Your job just finished.

Send yourself an email, direct message, tweet, text, growl notification, and speak:

woof Your job just finished.

!!!

Creator

Mike Barry

• https://github.com/msbarry
• https://twitter.com/msb5014

Special thanks to @mediocrity for help getting the music command working.

Contributing

Feel free to fork the repo and open a pull request. Some suggestions:

• Brew formula
• More notification methods
• Testimonials for the readme
• Benchmarking results
• Unit tests

License

MIT