This sounds good, except for this:

> osascript -e 'tell app id "com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp" to close all notifications'

that might close other notifications before you see them, or it might clear other 'sticky' notifications that you wanted to see.

There's a better way to do this, unfortunately it's not at all clear what this feature does until someone explains it.

First I'l quote the rather obscure text from `man growlnotify`:

> -d, --identifier = Sets the identifier for the notification. The identifier is used for coalescing, which means multiple notifications with the same identifer will use a single bubble, the latest notification taking precedence.

Ok, what does that mean? It means that you can assign a specific 'name' to a notification from `growlnotify` which won't show up anywhere in the notification itself, but you can use it again to replace that same notification.

I can hear you asking already: "Huh?"

Yeah, I know, it's better to have an example. So here's one:

#!/bin/zsh -f

NAME="$0:t:r"

growlnotify --identifier ThisIsSomeUniqueName --appIcon Terminal --sticky --message "Updating index of Hard Drive" --title "$NAME"

sudo find / -type f -print > "$HOME/Library/Logs/hd-index.txt"

growlnotify --identifier ThisIsSomeUniqueName --appIcon Terminal --message "Hard Drive Index updated" --title "$NAME"

exit 0

Note the lack of a '--sticky' in the second `growlnotify` line? Note that I used the same `--identifier` for both? The second one says "Replace the previous Growl notification with the same identifier (if it is still shown on the screen)."

Since the replacement is _not_ sticky, the notification will go away once the default time has passed.

You could also test the exit of the command and run a different notification depending on the outcome:

#!/bin/zsh -f

NAME="$0:t:r"

growlnotify --identifier ThisIsSomeUniqueName --appIcon Terminal --sticky --message "Updating index of Hard Drive" --title "$NAME"

sudo find / -type f -print > "$HOME/Library/Logs/hd-index.txt"

EXIT="$?"

if [ "$EXIT" = "0" ]
then

growlnotify --identifier ThisIsSomeUniqueName --appIcon Terminal --message "Hard Drive update succeeded" --title "$NAME"

exit 0

else

growlnotify --identifier ThisIsSomeUniqueName --appIcon Terminal --sticky --message "Hard Drive Index update FAILED (exit = $EXIT)" --title "$NAME"

exit 1

fi

exit

(Aside: if you read `man growlnotify` and see the `--wait` option, don't get excited: it doesn't work, it hasn't worked, and I'm starting to wonder if it will ever work.)

Second: I wrote a `growlnotify` wrapper https://github.com/tjluoma/...

It will:

* launch Growl.app if it's not running (basically so you don't have to autolaunch it on login, or if it crashes)

*re-launch Growl if `growlnotify` exits uncleanly (which usually means that Growl is hung up for some reason) *and* re-sends the Growl notification after Growl restarts.

*Maybe some other stuff I've forgotten :-)