[Remind-Fans] Fwd: My Remind scheduling script and thoughts on growlnotify

[Brian P. Flaherty]

Manu Kaul wrote:
> Hi,
> Was trying to figure out which command would work and following the man 
> page I realised that the 43 folders wiki page had the wrong argument as 
> -k' ...
> when it should have been '-kcmd' according to the man page. So the below 
> works for me. 
> 
> /usr/local/bin/remind *'-k/usr/local/bin/growlnotify -n remind -a iCal 
> -t Reminder -s -m %s &*' -a /Users/manukaul/.reminders &

I send appointment notifications to growlnotify running remind in daemon 
mode like this:

remind '-kgrowlnotify -m %s' -z2 .reminders &

I had a launchd job/script(?) and one-line shel script that sends my 
day's list of reminders to growlnotify.  I assume you could adapt it to 
add the flags you want.

launchd XML thing:

camus:LaunchAgents$ more bxf4.alert.daysrem.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" 
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd
">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
         <key>Debug</key>
         <true/>
         <key>Label</key>
         <string>bxf4.alert.daysrem</string>
         <key>Program</key>
         <string>/Users/bxf4/bin/daysrem.sh</string>
         <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
         <dict>
                 <key>Hour</key>
                 <integer>7</integer>
                 <key>Minute</key>
                 <integer>5</integer>
         </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

This runs it at 7:05am

The shell script is:

camus:LaunchAgents bxf4$ cat /Users/bxf4/bin/daysrem.sh
#!/bin/bash

/opt/local/bin/remind /Users/bxf4/.reminders | /usr/local/bin/growlnotify


I did it with a shell script because I couldn't get the pipe to work in 
the launchd XML.

Maybe this will help?

Brian


> 
> This command is run every 300 seconds ( 5 mins ) and it gives me 
> reminders. To test it I had in the file : 
> 
> REM Sep 30 2009 AT 14:45 MSG %a : %2 --- Testing 1!
> REM Sep 30 2009 AT 14:50 MSG %a : %2 --- Testing 2!
> REM Sep 30 2009 AT 14:55 MSG %a : %2 --- Testing 3!
> REM Sep 30 2009 AT 15:05 MSG %a : %2 --- Testing 4!
> 
> The only problem I am facing is that I keep getting MULTIPLE growl 
> notifications for each event that it queues. It looks like its queuing 
> up each event that is supposed to happen in the future every time I 
> refresh reminder and then when the date/time combination is triggered it 
> shows me all the queued up growl notifications so I end up with a huge 
> list of sticky growl notifications. Can someone suggest how to get only 
> ONE to appear using the command above?
> 
> Cheers,
> Manu
> 
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