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mail-notice.md 
<some-command> | tee some.log ; \
  ( [[ ${PIPESTATUS[0]} -eq 1 ]] \
  && (tail some.log | mail -s '<some-command> exited with error' [email protected]) \
  || (tail some.log | mail -s '<some-command> finished' [email protected]) )

breakdown:

<some-command> | tee some.log;
run command, tee output to log (display in terminal, and writes to file)

(
group this stuff

[[ ${PIPESTATUS[0]} -eq 1 ]]
check exit code of <some-command>. this is bash specific.

&& (tail some.log | mail -s '<some-command> exited with error' [email protected])
on success, email tail of log

|| (tail some.log | mail -s '<some-command> finished' [email protected])
else, on fail also email tail of log

)
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