Usage in a bash script

[cilia]

I try to use terminal-notifier inside a bash script. When I call the script in a terminal manually, it works fine. However, if the script is called outside of a terminal, e.g. by launchd, then no notification appears.

Is this by design or am I missing something here?

[julienXX]

My guess is that when using launchd, you don't get access to the graphical part of the user's account and therefore can't access the Notification Center.

[applebit924]

I use a separate launch Agent to execute the terminal-notifier. That works great.

• Jon McCullough

On Nov 5, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Julien Blanchard notifications@github.com wrote:

My guess is that when using launchd, you don't get access to the graphical part of the user's account and therefore can't access the Notification Center.

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[julienXX]

@applebit924 nice, could you post your solution here?

[applebit924]

Create the LaunchAgent /Library/LaunchAgents/com.AppleBitTechnologies.coreMonitor.plist with the following contents:

Label com.AppleBitTechnologies.coreDaemon KeepAlive Program /Library/Scripts/coreDaemon/System/coreMonitor.sh WatchPaths /tmp/.coreMonitor

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Then your launch daemon can use something of this nature to get the job done:

NC_UID=$(ruby -e 'puts Time.now.to_f')

message="MESSAGE EXAMPLE"
title="TITLE EXAMPLE"
group="GROUP EXAMPLE"

echo '"'"/Library/Scripts/coreDaemon/Components/Locally-Installed/Software_Updates/Data/Applications/Software Update Notifications.app/Contents/MacOS/Software Update Notifications"'" -message "'"$message"'" -title "'"$title"'" -group "'"$group"'" ' > /tmp/.coreMonitor-NotificationCenter-$NC_UID.sh
chmod 777 /tmp/.coreMonitor-NotificationCenter-$NC_UID.sh
mv -f /tmp/.coreMonitor-NotificationCenter-$NC_UID.sh /tmp/.coreMonitor/NotificationCenter-$NC_UID.sh

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Can someone please publish this as well? I’ve been meaning to but so darn busy.

• Jon McCullough

On Nov 5, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Julien Blanchard notifications@github.com wrote:

@applebit924 https://github.com/applebit924 nice, could you post your solution here?

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[cilia]

Thanks for everyone's contribution. I got it working by specifying the full path of terminal-notifier (installed via homebrew). In contrast with calling the script in the terminal, I guess launchd has no idea of where to find terminal-notifier without any guidance.