Growlme is a simple command-line tool to execute a command in a subshell and notify growl of success or failure:

$ growlme ant clean package

To make growl receive remote notifications, you need to turn on "Allow remote application registration" in the "Network" tab of growl's preferences panel. Set a password, and put that password in ~/.growlpass or pass it via the -P parameter. You'll need to go back to General tab, hit Stop Growl, then start it back up and allow it to accept network connections.

In the simplest case, growlme runs locally on a machine that is running growl, and sends the notification over a local UDP port. But it can also work over a LAN if the SSHCLIENT environment variable is set, or you pass a hostname explicitly via the -H parameter.

By default, the notification's title is "(hostname): (command)" and the message is either "Succeeded" or "FAILED". You can change any of these on the command line (see --help).

Most of the code is Rui Carmo's "netgrowl", included inline and edited down a bit. You can find the original on his web site. Greg added the CLI wrapper and Robey generalized it into a something that executes other programs.

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