Say you’re on OSX and working with some C++ software that might crash when bugs are found… and say you don’t want to tail or search the voluminous logs just to know whether there’s crashes to investigate. The crashes will show up in the Console application, but it destroys your performance to leave it open.
The programs I care about all have names starting with XM. This one-liner pops a notification and then opens the crash report in Console, which I can close when I’m done.
Jacks-MacBook-Pro:SCM-Framework jackcoates$ crontab -l | grep Crash
*/60 * * * * find ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports -cmin -60 -name xm* -exec osascript -e ‘display notification “{}” with title “Extremely Crashy!”‘ ; -exec open {} ;
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