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can I redirect file as input to notify-send?

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I want to use command notify-send and display text from a file as a notification so that I can only edit that file to change command or forward contents from outputs of other programs to notify-send.

I tried :

notify-send -u critical -t 3000 < ~/ved

cat ved | notify-send -u critical -t 3000

It says : No summary specified.

What should I do about this summary?

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answered 3 Years ago teromato · Accepted Answer

Im not sure what you want to do or what kind of file you want to display but man notify-send says

notify-send [OPTIONS] <summary> [body]

Summary being a title, so for example, the basename of your file.

So what you can do is

notify-send -u critical -t 3000 "$(basename ~/ved)" "$(cat ~/ved)"

But be aware that notify-send won't print long text file, it's not its job.

Also, I don't know for you or everyone else, but the -t option never worked for me, time being always 10s. I've read it was a bug a long time ago and it's still not working in 12.04.