notify-cat

Use a pipe for getting notifications. That's it.

No message sources defined, no arguments given?Usage: ./notify-cat [source specifications] Each source specifications is a comma separated list of options.

Supported options are:

• file: Name of a file that should be read or - for stdin
• urgency: One of 'low', 'normal' or 'critical' which specifies the urgency of the generated notifactions
• timeout: Timeout in seconds for the notifications
• icon: The icon to use for the notifications
• prefix: Prefix to prepend to generated messages

Example

tail --follow=name --lines=0 --quiet /var/log/syslog | notify-cat file:-,timeout:10,icon:/home/$USER/foo.png,urgency:low,prefix:Beware:\