# terminal-notifier

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terminal-notifier is a command-line tool to send macOS User Notifications,
which are available on macOS 10.10 and higher.


## News

[alerter](https://github.com/vjeantet/alerter) features were merged in terminal-notifier 1.7. This led to some issues and even more issues in the 1.8 release. We decided with [Valère Jeantet](https://github.com/vjeantet) to rollback this merge.

From now on terminal-notifier won't have the sticky notification feature nor the actions buttons. If you need them please use [alerter](https://github.com/vjeantet/alerter). I also want to follow [semver](http://semver.org) hence this latest version starts at 2.0.0.

Sticking to two smaller specialized tools will hopefully make them easier to maintain and less error prone.


## Caveats

* It is currently packaged as an application bundle, because `NSUserNotification`
  does not work from a ‘Foundation tool’. [radar://11956694](radar://11956694)

* If you intend to package terminal-notifier with your app to distribute it on the Mac App Store, please use 1.5.2; version 1.6.0+ uses a private method override, which is not allowed in the App Store Guidelines.

* If you're using macOS < 10.10 you should use terminal-notifier 1.6.3.

* If you're looking for sticky notifications or more actions on a notification please use [alerter](https://github.com/vjeantet/alerter)

## Download

Prebuilt binaries are available from the
[releases section](https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier/releases).

Or if you want to use this from
[Ruby](https://github.com/julienXX/terminal-notifier/tree/master/Ruby), you can
install it through RubyGems:

```
$ [sudo] gem install terminal-notifier
```

You can also install it via [Homebrew](https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew):
```
$ brew install terminal-notifier
```

## Usage

```
$ ./terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier -[message|group|list] [VALUE|ID|ID] [options]
```

In order to use terminal-notifier, you have to call the binary _inside_ the
application bundle.

The Ruby gem, which wraps this tool, _does_ have a bin wrapper. If installed
you can simply do:

```
$ terminal-notifier -[message|group|list] [VALUE|ID|ID] [options]
```

This will obviously be a bit slower than using the tool without the wrapper.

If you'd like notifications to stay on the screen until dismissed, go to System Preferences -> Notifications -> terminal-notifier and change the style from Banners to Alerts. You cannot do this on a per-notification basis.


### Example Uses

Display piped data with a sound:
```
$ echo 'Piped Message Data!' | terminal-notifier -sound default
```

![Example 1](assets/Example_1.png)

Use a custom icon:
```
$ terminal-notifier -title ProjectX -subtitle "new tag detected" -message "Finished" -appIcon http://vjeantet.fr/images/logo.png
```

![Example 3](assets/Example_3.png)

Open an URL when the notification is clicked:
```
$ terminal-notifier -title '💰' -message 'Check your Apple stock!' -open 'http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL'
```

![Example 4](assets/Example_4.png)

Open an app when the notification is clicked:
```
$ terminal-notifier -group 'address-book-sync' -title 'Address Book Sync' -subtitle 'Finished' -message 'Imported 42 contacts.' -activate 'com.apple.AddressBook'
```

![Example 5](assets/Example_5.png)


### Options

At a minimum, you must specify either the `-message` , the `-remove`, or the
`-list` option.

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`-message VALUE`  **[required]**

The message body of the notification.

If you pipe data into terminal-notifier, you can omit this option,
and the piped data will become the message body instead.

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`-title VALUE`

The title of the notification. This defaults to ‘Terminal’.

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`-subtitle VALUE`

The subtitle of the notification.

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`-sound NAME`

Play the `NAME` sound when the notification appears.
Sound names are listed in Sound Preferences.

Use the special `NAME` “default” for the default notification sound.

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`-group ID`

Specifies the notification’s ‘group’. For any ‘group’, only _one_
notification will ever be shown, replacing previously posted notifications.

A notification can be explicitly removed with the `-remove` option (see
below).

Example group IDs:

* The sender’s name (to scope the notifications by tool).
* The sender’s process ID (to scope the notifications by a unique process).
* The current working directory (to scope notifications by project).

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`-remove ID`  **[required]**

Remove a previous notification from the `ID` ‘group’, if one exists.

Use the special `ID` “ALL” to remove all messages.

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`-list ID` **[required]**

Lists details about the specified ‘group’ `ID`.

Use the special `ID` “ALL” to list details about all currently active messages.

The output of this command is tab-separated, which makes it easy to parse.

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`-activate ID`

Activate the application specified by `ID` when the user clicks the
notification.

You can find the bundle identifier (`CFBundleIdentifier`) of an application in its `Info.plist` file
_inside_ the application bundle.

Examples application IDs are:

* `com.apple.Terminal` to activate Terminal.app
* `com.apple.Safari` to activate Safari.app

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`-sender ID`

Fakes the sender application of the notification. This uses the specified
application’s icon, and will launch it when the notification is clicked.

Using this option fakes the sender application, so that the notification system
will launch that application when the notification is clicked. Because of this
it is important to note that you cannot combine this with options like
`-execute` and `-activate` which depend on the sender of the notification to be
‘terminal-notifier’ to perform its work.

For information on the `ID`, see the `-activate` option.

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`-appIcon PATH`

Specify an image `PATH` to display instead of the application icon.

**WARNING: This option is subject to change, since it relies on a private method.**

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`-contentImage PATH`

Specify an image `PATH` to attach inside of the notification.

**WARNING: This option is subject to change since it relies on a private method.**

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`-open URL`

Open `URL` when the user clicks the notification. This can be a web or file URL,
or any custom URL scheme.

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`-execute COMMAND`

Run the shell command `COMMAND` when the user clicks the notification.

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`-ignoreDnD`

Ignore Do Not Disturb settings and unconditionally show the notification.

**WARNING: This option is subject to change since it relies on a private method.**

## License

All the works are available under the MIT license. **Except** for
‘Terminal.icns’, which is a copy of Apple’s Terminal.app icon and as such is
copyright of Apple.

Copyright (C) 2012-2017 Eloy Durán <eloy.de.enige@gmail.com>, Julien Blanchard
<julien@sideburns.eu>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies
of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do
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