Separating the first part of a list and the `alert` part with && (or any of the doubled control operators) will result the second character to be printed in the body of the message. Adding the asterisk after the [;&|] bracket expression fixes it.
alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]*\s*alert$//'\'')"' Bug #1953151 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to bash in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616028 Title: add an "alert" alias, which can optionally be added after long running commands Status in bash package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: bash This bug is closely related, though slightly different from Bug #315932. I recently posted: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/07/dear-command-line-please-ping-me-when.html This post received some positive feedback in the comments and in IRC. A number of people have asked for this sort of functionality in the default Ubuntu .bashrc. I think this is a perfectly reasonable request. It doesn't get in the way, as current users must consciously append "; alert" onto their long running commands. We can experiment with this as a proof-of-concept in Maverick, and perhaps look at better ways of doing this automagically by default (again, see the really interesting implementation in Bug #315932). I have tested: a) when libnotify-bin is not installed -- command-not-found prints a useful error message b) when gnome-terminal is not installed -- icons aren't present; notify message pops up without icons; still functional c) over ssh -X -- works fine, assuming the client and host has the necessary packages to do libnotify stuff To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/616028/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
