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notify-send:tldr:239e6
notify-send: Show a notification with the title "Test" and the content "This is a test".
$ notify-send "${Test}" "${This is a test}"
try on your machine
The command "notify-send" is used to display a desktop notification on Linux systems using the freedesktop.org Desktop Notifications specification. It allows messages or alerts to be shown as pop-up notifications to the user.
In this specific command:
- "${Test}" represents a variable placeholder that should be replaced with an actual value when executing the command. It could be the title or label for the notification you want to display.
- "${This is a test}" is another variable placeholder, representing the content or message of the notification.
When executing this command, the values of the variables should be replaced with actual text. For example, if you want to display a notification with the title "Alert" and the message "This is an important message," you would run the command as follows:
notify-send "Alert" "This is an important message"
This will trigger a desktop notification with the specified title and message on your Linux system.
This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and
never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.