How do I make a Mac Terminal pop-up alert Applescript

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I want to be able to have my program display an alert  notice  whatever that displays my custom text  How is this done  Also  is it possible to make one with several buttons that sets a variable   Similar to batch s  echo msgbox   lt a vbs amp a vbs

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Use osascript  For example   osascript -e  tell app  Finder  to display dialog  Hello World      Replacing    Finder    with whatever app you desire  Note if that app is backgrounded  the dialog will appear in the background too  To always show in the foreground  use    System Events    as the app   osascript -e  tell app  System Events  to display dialog  Hello World     Read more on Mac OS X Hints

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And my 15 cent  A one liner for the mac terminal etc just set the MIN  to whatever and a message  MIN 15  amp  amp  for i in   seq     MIN 60   -1 1   do echo   i     sleep 1  done  echo -e   n nMac Finder should show a popup  afplay  System Library Sounds Funk aiff  osascript -e  tell app  Finder  to display dialog  Look away  Rest your eyes     A bonus example for inspiration to combine more commands  this will put a mac put to standby sleep upon the message too    the sudo login is needed then  a multiplication as the 60 2 for two hours goes aswell   sudo su clear  echo   n nPreparing for a sleep when timers done  n   MIN 60 2  amp  amp  for i in   seq     MIN 60   -1 1   do printf   r 02d  02d  02d     i 3600        i 60  60      i 60    sleep 1  done  echo   n n Time to sleep  zzZZ    afplay  System Library Sounds Funk aiff  osascript -e  tell app  Finder  to display dialog  Time to sleep zzZZ    shutdown -h  1 -s

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Adding subtitle  title and a sound to the notification   With AppleScript   display notification  Notification text  with title  Notification Title  subtitle  Notification sub-title  sound name  Submarine    With terminal bash and osascript   osascript -e  display notification  Notification text  with title  Notification Title  subtitle  Notification sub-title  sound name  Submarine     An alert can be displayed instead of a notification  Does not take the sub-heading nor the sound tough    With AppleScript   display alert  Alert title  message  Your message text line here     With terminal bash and osascript   osascript -e  display alert  Alert title  message  Your message text line here      Add a line in bash for playing the sound after the alert line   afplay  System Library Sounds Hero aiff   Add same line in AppleScript  letting shell script do the work   do shell script   afplay  System Library Sounds Hero aiff     List of macOS built in sounds to choose from here   Paraphrased from a handy article on terminal and applescript notifications

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I made a script to solve this which is here  You don t need any extra software for this  Installation  brew install akashaggarwal7 tools tsay Usage  sleep 5  tsay  Feel free to contribute

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If you re using any Mac OS X version which has Notification Center  you can use the terminal-notifier gem  First install it  you may need sudo    gem install terminal-notifier   and then simply    terminal-notifier -message  Hello  this is my message  -title  Message Title    See also this OS X Daily post

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This would restore focus to the previous application and exit the script if the answer was empty   a   osascript -e  try tell app  SystemUIServer  set answer to text returned of  display dialog    default answer     end end activate app  path to frontmost application as text  answer    tr   r          -z   a      amp  amp  exit   If you told System Events to display the dialog  there would be a small delay if it wasn t running before   For documentation about display dialog  open the dictionary of Standard Additions in AppleScript Editor or see the AppleScript Language Guide

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Simple Notification osascript -e  display notification  quot hello world  quot   Notification with title osascript -e  display notification  quot hello world  quot  with title  quot This is the title quot   Notify and make sound osascript -e  display notification  quot hello world  quot  with title  quot Greeting quot  sound name  quot Submarine quot    Notification with variables osascript -e  display notification  quot   quot  TR TORRENT NAME has finished downloading  quot   quot  with title  quot     Transmission-daemon quot   credits  https   code-maven com display-notification-from-the-mac-command-line

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Use this command to trigger the notification center notification from the terminal   osascript -e  display notification  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet  with title  Title

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