OSX Terminal Notifier

Excellent third party tool called terminal-notifier, can post alerts and messages to Notification Center directly from the command line.

Install

Assuming you have ruby on the Mac, you can easily install terminal-notifier using gem:

$ sudo gem install terminal-notifier

Usage

Once installed, using the command at it’s most basic core is as follows:

$ terminal-notifier -message "Hello, this is my message" -title "Message Title" -sender "com.apple.terminal"

Please note: The sender is required.

To see help:

$ terminal-notifier -help

Alternatives

A more powerful tool is cocoaDialog. However installation and usage is more complex.

See also

• OSX-daily, Terminal Notifier.