brianarn · May 24, 2018 21:21 · May 24, 2018 · May 24, 2018
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@@ -11,4 +11,15 @@ sleep 1
 done
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-It cycles through each sound, creating a notification, with a title, so you can get a taste of all the options available to you.
+It cycles through each sound, creating a notification, with a title, so you can get a taste of all the options available to you.
+
+I also just created this small bash function that I'm now using in some scripts around this, to do both a say and an alert at me.
+
+```bash
+announce() {
+  osascript -e "display notification \"$1\" with title \"APP NAME HERE\" sound name \"Glass\""
+  say $1
+}
+```
+
+Now I can `announce "Thing complete"` in the script and it works.
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@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Thanks to a [wonderful tip from @brianloveswords](https://twitter.com/brianloveswords/status/997188051096035328) I've started using `osascript` alongside `say` to help me notice when long-running jobs are done.
+
+You can also put a sound with the notification, which is cool, and I wanted a quick way to test every sound on the system, so I ran this:
+
+```bash
+for f in /System/Library/Sounds/*.aiff
+do
+file=$(basename -s .aiff $f)
+osascript -e "display notification \"$file\" with title \"$file\" sound name \"$file\""
+sleep 1
+done
+```
+
+It cycles through each sound, creating a notification, with a title, so you can get a taste of all the options available to you.