Ack! That works, but is not good. $1 is the WHOLE command, including all parameters. First, long commands can create a large notify box. Second, growlnotify tries to interpret any flags in that command - those parameters that start with a hyphen (this must be a bug). I tried quoting ${PREEXEC_CMD:-Some Command} but that didn't help.

How would you get the first word of $1, which would be just the command with no parameters?


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Try:

export PREEXEC_CMD="$(echo $1 | awk '{print $1}')"

However, note that unless I'm mistaken, $BASH_COMMAND would include the entire command and all its arguments were it working. So, not sure if just getting the first word is entirely correct. I concur that this seems more like an issue with growlcode than with using $1 or $BASH_COMMAND.

Perhaps instead of just taking the first word, a better workaroud would be to just replace the dash with another character like tilde:

export PREEXEC_CMD="$(echo $1 | sed 's/-/~/g')"

Now, at a quick glance it still looks right.

-dbingham

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that awk bit works. Thanks.

The full command may be what was originally intended. But whether that's appropriate or not gets back to my first point - long commands (I often run configures with a long stream of options) can either create a large growl box, unless limited in the growl prefs. In the end, all I need to see for a quick notification is the command and not all its parameters.


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