Mac Command-Line Notification Tools

Here’s a collection of useful command-line notification tools for Mac developers. I’ve been using these for long-running build jobs or other tasks which I’m waiting for. The three methods I describe here are voice audio, system notifications, and SMS text messaging. Voice Audio Voice audio is built into Mac OSX and available from the command line with the say utility. To learn the various options, refer to the say man page (or locally just man say). In the simplest case, just give it a text string to read aloud: $ say “hello” Run this at the end of a build…

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