Watching long running commands in OSX

gistfile1.md

Install terminal-notifier

$ gem install terminal-notifier

Then add a new function into your .bashrc or .zshrc

function watch { 
  $* 
  echo -n -e "\033[41m"
  echo $* DONE  
  date
  echo -n -e "\033[0m" 
  $(rvm @default ; echo $* DONE | terminal-notifier)
}

The last line launches a sub-shell, switches to the correct Ruby and gemset and launches terminal-notifier. RVM is not required (just Ruby 1.9.3).

Now I can do something like:

$ watch rake run_a_really_long_test_suite