ChrisJamesC / sl.ack

Receive a slack notification when a shell command is done

sl.ack

Receive a slack notification when a shell command is done

Examples

This script first executes the command passed as argument, then, when the command is done, it sends you a slack notifications through slackbot.

sl ls -al 
sl sleep 10s
sl make
sl ENV_VAR=FOO make 

Configurations

• SLACK_USER: your slack username
• SLACK_URL: the webhook url you want to use
• HOSTNAME: (optionnal) the name of the host that the script is running from.

Installation

1. Copy the sl script to ~/sl-ack.py
2. In order to obtain the web hook URL, create an incomming web hook in https://slack.com/apps and configure it for the channel @slackbot if you don't want to post on a channel but send direct messages to yourself.
3. In your .profile or .bashrc depending on your OS, add the following lines:

export SLACK_USER=<your slack user name>                                                      
export SLACK_URL=https://hooks.slack.com/services/<your slack web hook url>
alias sl="python ~/sl-ack.py"      

3. run source ~/.profile or source ~/.bashrc

Alternatively you can just drop the sl file in your bin folder and just set the environment variables appropriately.