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I want to use command notify-send and display text from a file as a notification so that I can only edit that file to change command or forward contents from outputs of other programs to notify-send.

I tried :

  • notify-send -u critical -t 3000 < ~/ved

  • cat ved | notify-send -u critical -t 3000

It says : No summary specified.

What should I do about this summary?

VedVals
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3 Answers3

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http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4460/pipe-output-to-notify-send

says

echo 'information overlord' | while read OUTPUT; do notify-send "$OUTPUT"; done
user161462
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  • One can also only forward the stderr to notify-osd. Here is an example: git ls-remote "https://bitbucket.org/$username/$reponame.git" 2>&1 1>/dev/null | while read OUTPUT; do notify-send "error" "$OUTPUT" -i gtk-error; done – Khurshid Alam Jan 08 '14 at 12:07
  • Thanks. I added this to my ~/.bash_aliases: function notify { while read input; do notify-send "message" "$input"; done; }. – TRiG Mar 30 '15 at 22:27
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Im not sure what you want to do or what kind of file you want to display but man notify-send says

notify-send [OPTIONS] <summary> [body]

Summary being a title, so for example, the basename of your file.

So what you can do is

notify-send -u critical -t 3000 "$(basename ~/ved)" "$(cat ~/ved)"

But be aware that notify-send won't print long text file, it's not its job.

Also, I don't know for you or everyone else, but the -t option never worked for me, time being always 10s. I've read it was a bug a long time ago and it's still not working in 12.04.

VedVals
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user55822
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Try this:

notify-send -u critical -t 3000 "$(cat ~/ved)"
Dennis Kaarsemaker
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