Command chaining with NTFY for long running commands

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

NTFY is a great open-source push notification service that’s self-hostable or free to use (although I suggest you pay for it as I do). I’ve written before how I use it with UptimeKuma for my uptime monitoring, but another common use is just when I’m initiating long-running commands and backgrounding them.

This magic is possible since we can just curl to send a NTFY notification. For example:

curl -d "😀 demo push message via NTFY" ntfy.sh/blog_demo

Since I’m subscribed to the “blog_demo” topic in NTFY, this message will be pushed to my phone and watch:

Nohup on dev.endevour

Command chaining with NTFY for long running commands