notify-on-completion for Vagrant

HOWTO.md

Alex Kotliarskyi wrote a great little script to show OS X desktop notifications when a long-running terminal command finishes (and is not in focus).

Making it work with a Vagrant virtual machine turned out to be straightforward. These instructions assume zsh as shell, bash might work similarly.

1. Following Alex's instructions, install the notifyme script on OS X, in e.g. ~/bin/notifyme (assuming ~/bin is in $PATH, remember to chmod u+x notifyme)
2. (Vagrant) Install Ruby on the VM: sudo apt-get install ruby
3. (OS X) Install the vagrant-notify plugin: vagrant plugin install vagrant-notify
4. (OS X) Restart the virtual machine: vagrant halt & vagrant up
5. (OS X) Alias our script under a name which the plugin knows: ln -s ~/bin/notifyme ~/bin/notify-send
6. (Vagrant) Append to the end of the ~/.zshrc in your Vagrant box:

function f_notifyme {
    LAST_EXIT_CODE=$?
    CMD=$(fc -ln -1)
    # No point in waiting for the command to complete
    notify-send "$CMD" "$LAST_EXIT_CODE" &
}

export PS1='$(f_notifyme)'$PS1

Fire up a new zsh shell, or do a source .zshrc, and you should get notifications of finished shell commands on your desktop!

notifyme

#!/usr/bin/env osascript

on run argv
  tell application "System Events"
    set frontApp to name of first application process whose frontmost is true
    if frontApp is not "iTerm2" then
      set notifTitle to item 1 of argv
      set notifBody to "succeded"
      set errorCode to item 2 of argv
      if errorCode is not "0"
        set notifBody to "failed with error code " & errorCode
      end if
      display notification notifBody with title notifTitle
    end if
  end tell
end run