Yesterday I thought of a technique which has become a real time-saver for me. (I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this; I remember reading something similar in Time Management for System Administrators.)
You can get notification from any long-running task on the command line like this:
For example, using Rake on a Mac:
Now I can kick of the database to be rebuilt and move to another window, knowing that I'll get audible notification when that task is complete.
You can get notification from any long-running task on the command line like this:
do_my_task && make_a_sound
For example, using Rake on a Mac:
rake db:reseed && say 'done'
Now I can kick of the database to be rebuilt and move to another window, knowing that I'll get audible notification when that task is complete.