Notification function for long-running commands

.bashrc

# ~/.bashrc

# Here's a nice alert sound you can use: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ctziqfuqt5q9fek/alert.mp3?dl=0
# Find some more here: https://notificationsounds.com/notification-sounds

alias alert="afplay ~/sounds/alert.mp3"

function n() {
  local ALERT="Alert from Bash"
  local EXIT_CODE=0
  if [ -n "$1" ]; then
    "$@"
    EXIT_CODE=$?
    ALERT="Finished running: $*"
  fi
  alert
  osascript -e "display notification \"$ALERT\""
  return "$EXIT_CODE"
}

# Examples: 
#
#    $ n make
#    $ n rspec
#
#    $ command && other_command; n