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BroodingDogma

Member

Registered: 2005-03-31

Posts: 13

Sound upon script completion

I have a script that automates making and installing packages from the AUR.  Is there a way to make it play a sound or give me a pop in X when it is finished?

The script is iphitus'  and is as follows:
#! /bin/bash

# AUR Package installation script
# run as:
# aur

# James Rayner < iphitus@gmail.com >

. /etc/rc.d/functions

stat_busy "Downloading PKGBUILDs" 
wget -q http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/$1/$1.tar.gz

if [[ $? -eq 0 ]];
then
    stat_done
    status "Extracting PKGBUILD" tar -zxvf $1.tar.gz
    rm $1.tar.gz &> /dev/null
    cd $1
    if [[ $UID = 0 ]]; then
        stat_busy "Making Package"
        exec makepkg -fi 
    else
        stat_busy "Making Package"
        exec makepkg -f
    fi
else
    stat_fail
    echo "  Package Unavailable"
fi

I know it's not a necesary thing, but when the comp is working on a particularly long project I tend to wander off and do something else.  It would be convenient to not have to look over every couple of minutes to see if it's done yet.
Thanks.

Komodo

Member

From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: Sound upon script completion

You can use the WAIT command to wait for all background processes in your script to finish before performing an action.

So you'd have e.g.

[your script]
wait
player sound.mp3

I don't know how to easily do a popup in X, but to play you'll have to specify a player and a soundfile. If you don't want to play the sound in your default music player (since it's a bit of an arse having Amarok/XMMS/MPD stop playing music just to beep at you ) then personally I'd advise using sox - it's a tiny CLI player, great for sounds like this. You'd then just do sox soundfile.mp3, and soxmixer lets you change settings

Hope that helps.

Komodo

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BroodingDogma

Member

Registered: 2005-03-31

Posts: 13

Re: Sound upon script completion

Thanks for the help

Komodo

Member

From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: Sound upon script completion

No problem mate

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