a.rb

#!/bin/bash

user=clinton.paquin
pass=$(security find-internet-password -w -a "$user" -s "accounts.google.com")


curl -u "$user:$pass" --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom"| perl -ne '
    print "Subject: $1 " if /<title>(.+?)<\/title>/ && $title++;
    print "(from $1)"  if /<email>(.+?)<\/email>/;
' | terminal-notifier -title "Gmail" -sound default;

I'm unclear what you're expecting this to do... notifications wrap on two lines and then cut off…

Just wanted to force a line break between messages, so they weren't all piled into one long string on the notification.

Can you even see multiple lines? I just get a 2-line notification that barely fits the first line in…

@ttscoff

Yeah, if the subject is short enough (but I'm not seeing time stamps)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4p46vr2y953oamc/Screenshot%202014-01-17%2012.20.59.png

@clintonpaquin (I don't think these @ refs work in gist comments)

The time stamp is part of the subject in my case. I'm still confused where you want the line break… do you mean you want to cut off the subject and see the next one underneath it? You'd still only see two messages...

in my case, I had 2 messages ... so yeah, you would only see 2. Let's say you had 5 ... then it would display as follows, each message on a new line (or line break between them so they don't string together)

Subject: Message from foo (from foo@foo.com)
Subject: Message from bar (from foo@bar.com)
Subject: Message from bat (from foo@bat.com)
Subject: Message from bazz (from foo@bazz.com)
Subject: Message from buzz (from foo@buzz.com)

Looks like it's a moot point, either terminal-notifier or Notification Center appears to strip out all line breaks no matter how you format it.

I guess that's the answer I was looking for ... I tried a bunch of options and didn't have any luck. Thanks for the time, really appreciated. Congrats on going out on your own BTW, I'm a paid subscriber :)