Are you a fan of growl? You should be, because it is an amazingly useful application. Have you ever wanted to know how to send yourself a custom growl notification? It turns out, that when you install growl, it supplies a command line utility that you can use to generate notification messages. You can use the following snippet in a shell script to send yourself a custom message:
growlnotify -m “test message”
Many more command line options are available for growlnotify. To see a summary of all the available options:
growlnotify -h
