notify(1)

🎀 notify(1) — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're reading notify(1) from the General Commands Manual and honestly? it's short, it's sweet, it's iconic, and it does exactly one thing. let's go 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

notify — desktop notification on cross platforms 🦋

like... it pings your desktop. on any platform. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

notify  [OPTION...] <SUMMARY> [BODY]

so you pass it some options if you want, then a <SUMMARY> (mandatory, bestie, don't skip her), and then optionally a <BODY> if you've got more to say. and you do have more to say, don't you. 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

The notify provides desktop notification on cross platforms. ✨

that's it. that's the whole job. it shows up, it tells your desktop something, it leaves. main character energy with a tiny runtime.

In Debian, notify execute notify-send command.

so like, on Debian specifically, notify is basically handing the mic to notify-send. it's giving understudy-who-ate. 🔥 iykyk.

no extra flags are documented here, no exit statuses, no environment variables, no files — this page is a short queen and we respect her for it. don't go inventing options she never mentioned. 🙈

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✨ AUTHORS ✨

This manual page was written by Youhei SASAKI <uwabami@gfd-dennou.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🫶

ty Youhei, fr fr. writing a manpage is a public service and you served. 👑

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🌈 that's a wrap 🌈

General Commands Manual · notify(1) · November 2011

dated November 2011 and still out here doing her little thing. slay, honestly. 💖 periodt. 🎀