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# execNotify
Send notification on failure.
Or send an unconditional notification.
## setup
Create a `config.ini` file inside `execNotifyDir/config`.
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sudo make install
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## usage
## usage of execNotify
Add `execNotify` in front of your command to execute.
You can pipe into `execNotify` but **not** from `execNotify
You can pipe into `execNotify` but **not** from `execNotify`
as the output gets modified.
### Example
For `ls /home` run `execNotify ls /home`
## usage of notify
Send stdout via mail:
`echo "Hello world!" | notify`
Or with optional subject:
`echo "Hello world!" | notify "someSubject"`
Or without the pipe:
`notify "someSubject" "Hello" "World!" "What's" "up?"`
`notify "someSubject" "Hello World! What's up?"`